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Alert fatigue

Breaking free from alert fatigue by leveraging false positives

Embracing false positives might seem counterintuitive, but it’s a strategy that can significantly enhance the efficacy of your security operations. False positives, though often perceived as useless disruptions, offer invaluable opportunities for refinement.

Splunk.conf 2023

The Splunk.conf experience

Our colleagues reveal their insights about their journey at Splunk.con 2023. In this blog they share their experiences and learnings.

UMBRiO and Davinsi Labs join forces as Davinsi Labs: A unified journey begins

UMBRiO and Davinsi Labs, two companies in the Proximus Group, specialized in cybersecurity and intelligence solutions, announce they continue together under the name Davinsi Labs, with 'the art of data-driven decisions’ as their new joint credo.

Davinsi Labs and UMBRiO join forces

Davinsi Labs and Umbrio, two Proximus Group subsidiaries specializing in cybersecurity and intelligence solutions, just announced they are pooling their experience and expertise as part of a merger to scale up and innovate internationally. It’s a move that will enable them to become one of the leading Digital Service Intelligence players in the Benelux.

Modern cyberattacks: beyond traditional attack vectors

Modern cyberattacks: beyond traditional attack vectors

This blog post explores modern cyberattacks and how they go beyond traditional attack vectors. The security community knows that most successful attacks don’t involve highly technical vulnerability exploits but instead aim to trick a human into making a mistake. This blog post examines two examples of recent attacks that successfully targeted companies with robust security programs.

Davinsi Labs en team Daklozenhulp Antwerpen

Davinsi Labs steunt Daklozenhulp Antwerpen met schenking van 2000 EUR, dankzij nieuwjaarsactie samen met klanten

Davinsi Labs is blij om 2000 EUR aan Daklozenhulp Antwerpen (Dakant) te kunnen schenken, als gevolg van de jaarlijkse actie samen met klanten voor het goede doel.

Blog: The scale-up challenge and the North Star

The scale-up challenge and the North Star

This is our kick-off blog for 2023. Read more about the scale-up challenges and 5 key initiatives for 2023 that we believe will help us to address these challenges.

How to anticipate and avoid DDoS attacks

How to anticipate and avoid DDoS attacks?

In Belgium, more than 10.000 DDoS attacks happen every month. Not only is the number of these cyberattacks increasing but so is their complexity. If you have a commercial or informational website, then your business, big or small, and in any sector, is potentially at risk. A tailor-made solution, using realistic simulation tools offers the best guarantee to protect your company.

DEF CON 30

The DEF CON 30 experience

Our colleague and ethical hacker Thimo had an extraordinary time at the 4 day hacking conference DEF CON 30. In this blog he shares his experiences and learnings.

How Service Intelligence drives (digital) customer satisfaction

The analysis of technological processes, big data, performance and user satisfaction is incredibly valuable and has become a key element of IT operations analytics. Monitoring customers’ digital experience and mastering observability help you to further optimize your processes, making sure to keep your customers happy and loyal to your company.

Threat Advisory Follina

Threat Advisory: Follina

Follina is not only a small, beautiful commune in the province of Treviso in Italy, but also the name of a newly published exploit abusing all Microsoft Office applications to execute malicious code.

Isabel customer movie

Discover the story of our customer Isabel Group: Building confidence in a digital world, is making sure that security is a part of your DNA. Discover how Isabel Group,...

Threat Advisory: Spring4Shell

As the world’s most popular Java lightweight open-source framework, Spring allows developers to focus on business logic and simplifies the development cycle of Java enterprise applications.

Davinsi Labs schenkt 1.500 euro aan Huize Terloo

Davinsi Labs heeft namens de klanten en het bedrijf een donatie van 1.500 euro overhandigd aan OC Huize Terloo, een multifunctioneel centrum voor jongeren in Bellingen.

Threat Advisory: PwnKit CVE-2021-4034

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit’s pkexec utility. Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) handles the communication of unprivileged processes with privileged processes on Linux operating systems.

Digital Service Excellence in 2022

The year 2021 was another unique year. Digital Service Excellence and the power of data were more important than ever.

Threat Advisory: Apache Log4j RCE – UPDATE

A significant number of Java-based applications use log4j as their logging utility.

Threat Advisory: Apache Log4j RCE – Version 13/12/2021

A significant number of Java-based applications use log4j as their logging utility.

How to navigate your business through the Black Friday & Cyber Monday rush

There is no escaping, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are coming. Officially, Black Friday is November 26 this year, followed by Cyber Monday on November 29, but promotions and announcements have already been in full swing for weeks.

Threat Advisory: How to respond to ProxyShell, the latest exploit against Exchange

During Black Hat 2021, a well-known computer security conference, security researcher Orange Tsai showcased a new exploit dubbed “ProxyShell” to remotely attack on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers.

Threat Advisory: PrintNightmare exploitation in the wild

A recent proof of concept exploit was published (and quickly deleted) containing an unpatched 0-day in all supported Windows Operating Systems.

Peace of mind, even when you’re playing golf!

At Davinsi Labs, we like to show our sportive and passionate hearts. And it’s picture-perfect when we can do this while bringing our network closer together.

4th place for Davinsi Labs in the Trends Gazelle 2021 (Category medium-sized companies.)

It is with great pride that we can announce that Davinsi Labs has been nominated, and ended up in the top 5 of medium-sized companies, for this year’s Trends Gazelle 2021 for the province of Antwerp.

Our ethical hackers explain how ethical hacking works

Our ethical hackers explain how ethical hacking works

Our colleagues Sander Van der Borght and Stephen Corbiaux, ethical hackers at Davinsi Labs, answer 5 questions on ethical hacking in an interview with Proximus’ One Magazine.

Threat Advisory: HAFNIUM targeting Exchange Servers with 0-day exploits

March 2, 2021 marked the day of the release of a Threat Intelligence report by Microsoft, reporting multiple (!) 0-days exploits abused in the wild, to attack on-premise versions of Microsoft Exchange Servers.

Davinsi Labs schenkt opbrengst eindejaarsactie aan OC Huize Terloo

Davinsi Labs, gespecialiseerd in Digital Service Excellence, heeft namens de klanten en het bedrijf een donatie van 1.000 euro overhandigd aan OC Huize Terloo, een multifunctioneel centrum voor jongeren in Bellingen.

Looking forward to 2021

A new year, with new opportunities! Don’t we have to believe in this year more than ever? Many of us probably don’t mind leaving 2020 behind.

Authorization bypass through insecure token handling

Organizations often ignore the presence of low-risk vulnerabilities. One of our ethical hackers describes a real case to illustrate the consequences.

Proximus neemt Davinsi Labs over

Proximus neemt Davinsi Labs over en versterkt aldus zijn positie op de groeiende markt van de cybersecurity Proximus kondigt de overname aan van Davinsi Labs, een bedrijf dat zich...