Since Windows XP SP2, the Windows firewall is deployed and enabled by default in every Microsoft Windows operating system. Starting with Windows Vista the firewall relies on a set of API and services called the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP). Although used by almost every Windows OS, WFP is still one of the relatively unknown beast that lies in the kernel. In this post we will see how the firewall manages its persistent state.

This post deals with the new features in IRMA 1.3.0 released earlier this month, from both a user and a contributor point of view.

While improving the documentation (d'oh!) of our home grew obfuscator based on LLVM, we wrote a cheat sheet on clang's hardening features, and some of ld ones. It turns out existing hardening guides generally focus on GCC, while Clang also has an interesting set of hardening features. So let's share it in this blog post!

Chaque saison, des nuées de stagiaires quittent les réconfortants bancs de l'école pour rejoindre le monde sans pitié du travail. Afin de faciliter cette transition, nous, à Quarkslab, proposons des stages avec des sujets pointus, un encadrement sans complaisance mais néanmoins chaleureux, un régime alimentaire digne de sportifs de haut niveau (indispensable pour tenir le rythme), et un humour imperméable aux blagues qui ne font pas toujours un tabac. Si toi aussi tu aimes les défis, engage toi avec nous !

This article explains a recently disclosed vulnerability, independently discovered by the Google's Project Zero team and by Quarkslab some months ago. To our knowledge, this vulnerability was present, on all Samsung devices using Android 5, and allowed remote code execution as system user simply by browsing a website, by downloading an email attachment or via a malicious third party application with no permission.

LLVM developer Meeting report

Quarkslab's compiler crew is going to LLVM developer Meeting in CA!

Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic expressions can be used as an obfuscation technique. Why are they hard to de-obfuscate, and what do we need to do so?

Multiple kernel vulnerabilities in the Samsung S4 (GT-I9500)

Linux 4.1 has arrived with a new feature for its popular ext4 filesystem: filesystem-level encryption!