Resources House of Keys: 9 Months later... 40% Worse - blog.sec-consult.com In our initial study we analyzed SSH host key use as well. Unfortunately there is no recent scan data on SSH host keys available (however there is a ticket over at the awesome ZMap project). Tools FaceWhisperer - github.com FaceWhisperer is a hardware add-on for the ChipWhisperer side-channel [...]
Tools WiFi-Pumpkin - github.com Framework for Rogue Wi-Fi Access Point Attack Python tools for penetration testers - github.com Python tools for penetration testers Nmap 7.25BETA2 Birthday Release - nmap.org Nmap 7.25BETA1 includes dozens of performance improvements, bug fixes, and new features. Vulnerabilities Meet USBee, the malware that uses USB drives to covertly jump airgaps - [...]
Resources DEF CON 24 Wireless Monitoring Services - palshack.org One of the frequent things you hear leading up to DEF CON is that it is the most dangerous network in the world. Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that if you don’t lock down your devices you will get pwn’d. I wanted to know if [...]
Events Related Impressions From DEF CON 24: The Machines Are Rising - securityintelligence.com DEF CON 24, the world’s largest hacker conference, ended Aug. 7, and I must say I enjoyed every moment of it. There was so much to see in so little time; I definitely regret missing some great stuff that happened. Even so, [...]
Events Related DefCon Event Council of 9 ventured forth to DEFCON 24 to compete in this year’s badge challenge, brought to us each year by 1o57. There was determination among the team to win at DC24 to ensure that last year’s win was not a fluke. After many sleepless nights in Vegas, we emerged victorious for [...]
Events Related DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge: Early Highlights from the Competition - www.youtube.com Early highlights from the world's first all-machine hacking tournament, DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC). This computer security competition featured seven High Performance Computers as competitors. CGC took place on Thursday, August 4, 2016. Building the Workforce through Cybersecurity Competitions - www.whitehouse.gov The [...]
Events Related The Security Summer Camp Talks I Want To See… - jerrygamblin.com I took some time tonight and read through the Security Summer Camp (BSidesLV, Blackhat and Defcon) schedules and picked the talks from this year that I think will be the best and that I do not want to miss. BlackHat/Def Con/BSides Talk Picks for 2016 [...]
Events Related USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2016: The Best and Brightest Security Talks - duo.com I recently attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2016 in Denver, Colorado. I was invited to give an industry talk, discussing my Bring Your Own Dilemma paper from last March (touching briefly on the Out Of Box Exploitation paper from May). Instead of just flying [...]
Resources Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets - blog.cr4.sh Hi, everyone! In this article I will continue to publish my research of Lenovo ThinkPad’s firmware. Previously I shown how to discover and exploit SMM callout vulnerabilities on example of SystemSmmAhciAspiLegacyRt UEFI driver 1day vulnerability. Also, I introduced a small toolkit called fwexpl that provides API for comfortable development of firmware [...]
Events Related Circle City Con 2016 Videos - www.irongeek.com Area41 - 2016 - confseclive.wordpress.com I had the opportunity this year to attend Area41 conference in Zurich. The conference is organised by the DEFCON Switzerland group and the talks are mainly technical. ShowMeCon 2016 Videos - www.irongeek.com Recordings of talks and speakers at Security Fest 2016 - securityfest.com [...]