Anyone searching for penetration testing in the cybersecurity market usually encounters two extremes: IT system integrators selling standardized, automated vulnerability scans as genuine "pentests," or massive consulting firms where client contact is handled entirely by…
In 2025 binsec GmbH received an "Invitation to Tender With Emirates Group" from vendor.registration@theemirategroup.com. This alleged tender is a case of targeted Advance Fee Fraud . I explicitly warn against responding to emails from this domain or making any payments. This is…
Every few weeks, someone asks me the same question: “What do you actually find in a typical web penetration test?”
Today I received a very nice mail from Gloria with Enterprise Security Magazine Europe, telling me that binsec is recognized as one of the top Cyber Security Solution Providers.
Shameless rip-offs aimed at newly founded companies are on the rise. In 2013, when we founded binsec, we received a payment request that was supposed to motivate us to pay for an entry in a register. When we founded binsec group GmbH in October 2019 the notary had already warned us that…
Every semester, thousands of computer science students successfully complete their degrees - all too often with little or no knowledge of secure software development. No wonder that long-known vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) are still not a thing of the…
As a lecturer for “Penetration Testing”, I know only too well the decisive motivation behind my students’ decision to take this elective. It is all about “hacking”. For many an exciting topic from an early age - the hacking of…