How to Evaluate Your CTF Program
by Reflare Research Team on Jul 11, 2025 9:41:10 AM
Rolling out an in-house CTF can feel like reinventing the wheel, designing custom challenges is time-intensive, running the platform demands ongoing resources, and unseen organisational biases can skew the learning experience. When budgets tighten, these internal programs, which are e …
How to Solve CTF Crackmes Like Pros
by Reflare Research Team on Jun 4, 2025 2:20:30 PM
Crackmes aren’t just puzzles; they’re battlegrounds for reverse engineering mastery. From tearing apart broken crypto to decoding custom virtual machines, elite CTF players rely on a blend of math, timing tricks, and deep code intuition.
How Indie Documentaries Are Creating Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Experts (and Cyber Criminals)
by Reflare Research Team on May 13, 2025 3:11:10 PM
Behind every teenager watching hacker documentaries today is a future CISO, or a future cybercriminal. The storytelling matters more than ever.
Is Security Talent Born or Made?
by Reflare Research Team on Apr 4, 2025 3:55:10 PM
Are great security professionals naturally talented, or do they become great through training and experience? This is not just an interesting debate; it shapes how we identify, hire, and develop cybersecurity talent at a time when skilled professionals are hard to find.
A Brief Introduction to Zero-Days
by Reflare Research Team on Mar 12, 2025 4:15:49 PM
Zero-day vulnerabilities, unknown to software vendors and without available patches, create a perfect storm in which attackers gain a critical time advantage.
AIs Can Now Clone Themselves
by Reflare Research Team on Feb 5, 2025 2:31:55 PM
Remember Agent Smith in The Matrix, copying himself across the digital world until every program in the system became another Smith? What seemed like science fiction - an artificial intelligence that could create perfect copies of itself - is no longer just a movie plot.
When the Guards Turn into Vulnerabilities
by Reflare Research Team on Jan 17, 2025 11:38:51 AM
Imagine investing in security products only to find they’re giving hackers free reign over your network. This latest crisis isn’t just a fluke - it’s part of an alarming trend in security failures that aren’t doing the industry any favours.
Understanding Cyber Threat Intelligence - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Reflare Research Team on Dec 10, 2024 8:45:00 AM
As cyberattacks evolve into high-stakes showdowns, Cyber Threat Intelligence can emerge as your organisation's most trusted lookout - if you know how to sift through the hype.
The Shadow War: Advanced Persistent Threats in Modern Cybersecurity
by Reflare Research Team on Nov 7, 2024 1:13:00 PM
APTs are the top predators in the digital landscape. Advanced cyber tactics, ranging from basic break-ins to sophisticated and prolonged campaigns, are blurring the lines between annoying disruption and outright warfare. Throwing shade.
A History of Government Attempts to Compromise Encryption and Privacy
by Reflare Research Team on Oct 11, 2024 9:04:10 AM
The dance between maintaining national security and protecting individual privacy has been complex, shaped by the evolving landscape of technology. And it’s not over yet - not by a long shot.