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 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 Converge 2016 Videos - www.irongeek.com These are the videos from the Converge Information Security Conference. BSides Detroit 2016 Videos - www.irongeek.com These are the videos from the BSides Detroit 2016 Conference. AppSecEU 16 - Abhay Bhargav - SecDevOps: A View from the Trenches - www.youtube.com Resources KeeThief – A Case Study in Attacking KeePass Part [...]
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 BSides Cleveland 2016 Videos - www.irongeek.com These are the videos from the Bsides Cleveland conference. Resources MonitorDarkly - github.com This repo contains the exploit for the Dell 2410U monitor. It contains utilities for communicating with and executing code on the device. 148 Projects - bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org Tools BadUSB 2.0 USB MITM POC - github.com Other News [...]
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 [...]
Resources Typosquatting programming language package managers - incolumitas.com Typosquatting is the malicious registering of a domain that is lexically similar to another, often highly frequented, website. Typosquatters would for instance register a domain named Gooogle.com instead of the well known Google.com. Then they hope that people mistype the website name in the browser and accidentally arrive on the [...]
Resources Out-of-Box Exploitation: A Security Analysis of OEM Updaters - duo.com Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) refer to the first boot of a new PC as the out-of-box experience (OOBE). As you battle your way through modal dialogues for questionable software, and agree to some exciting 30 day antivirus trials, it’s pretty forgivable to want to throw [...]
Events Related NolaCon 2016 - www.irongeek.com Resources BlueCoat now has a CA signed by Symantec - twitter.com hitbsecconf2016ams - conference.hitb.org Tools Practical Malware Analysis Starter Kit - bluesoul.me This package contains most of the software referenced in Practical Malware Analysis. Some of the links have broken over time, some companies have folded or been bought. 1 [...]