Alongside working on assignments for clients, ITSX also conducts ongoing research and development projects. These projects can be both offensive and defensive oriented. They are not only beneficial to our own people but may be interesting to others as well.

Security vulnerabilities
At ITSX a fair amount of security research is performed. Some of this research leads to publications:

PocketPC (2003) ›

Nokia SMS crash (2001) ›

Sun Solaris snmpXdmid (2001) ›

Sun Solaris ufsrestore (2000) ›

Common Desktop Environment (CDE) (1999) ›

Kernel Hacking
Although this is a 'known' issue, very limited attention is put to the dangers and effects of kernel modification. To aid in understanding the issues involved an overview page was created. Also an example kit was published to show the effects of kernel modifications.

Tools
Some of the tools we wrote for testing are now published. See our tools page for more information.