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Week 50 In Review – 2013

Events Related Baythreat 4 – thesprawl.org Baythreat Day Two. Here are the writeups of another series of excellent presentations from the breaker track for the remainder of the day. The AppSec Program Maturity Curve 4 of 4 – veracode.com This is the final post in a series on the Application Program Maturity Curve. In this series, Veracode [...]

Week 49 In Review – 2013

Events Related BotConf 2013 Wrap-Up BotConf 2013 Wrap-Up Day #1 –blog.rootshell.be Xavier was in Nantes (France) for two days to attend a new conference: Botconf. As the name says, this event was dedicated to botnets and malwares. BotConf 2013 Wrap-Up Day #2 – blog.rootshell.be Here is the Day 2 wrap up of the conference by Xavier. The [...]

Week 48 In Review – 2013

Events Related Course Review: SANS SEC 760 Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers – ethicalhacker.net SANS SEC 760 Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers is a six-day course that teaches the advanced techniques that are needed to compromise modern information systems. OWASP Benelux Day 2013 Wrap-Up – blog.rootshell.be Xavier just back from Amsterdam where was organized the [...]

Week 47 In Review – 2013

Resources SIM Card Forensics: An Introduction – resources.infosecinstitute.com A detail discussion by Rohit Shaw about SIM (subscriber identity module), SIM structure and it's file systems, security, tools etc. Vulnerabilities Elevating privileges by exploiting weak folder permissions – www.greyhathacker.net This post is about weaknesses in folder permissions leading to elevation of privilege by using DLL hijacking vulnerabilities [...]

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Week 46 In Review – 2013

Tools WCE v1.42beta released (32bit) – hexale.blogspot.com WCE v1.42beta released (32bit). This is a minor release. Download it from here. heapLib 2.0 – blog.ioactive.com Chris Valasek released the code for heapLib2. For those of you not familiar, he introduced methods to perform predictable and controllable allocations/deallocations of strings in IE9-IE11 using JavaScript and the DOM. Techniques Unpacking [...]

Week 45 In Review – 2013

Resources Introducing Phishing Frenzy – pentestgeek.com A couple weeks ago Zecnox presented at this year's Derbycon on an email phishing platform that he has been working on. Those of you who missed the talk, he went over some of the features of  Phishing Frenzy and launched a live phishing simulation. You can see the recording here. [...]

Week 44 In Review – 2013

Resources Advanced iOS kernel debugging for exploit developers – www.youtube.com Advanced iOS kernel debugging for exploit developers: A presentation by Stefan Esser (@i0n1c) at the Breakpoint security conference in Melbourne, Australia. ekoparty Security Conference 9th Edition(2013) – ekoparty.org The ekoparty 2013 Videos & Papers are available here. Tools The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) v5.4 “Walkers” Released – trustedsec.com [...]

Week 43 In Review – 2013

Events Related Hack.lu 2013 Wrap-Up Xavier wrapped-up the event of Hack.Lu 2013-Luxembourg 9th edition. As usual, the event started with a bunch of interesting workshops, talks. These talks went really deep and finally, Shift closed the schedule with “Interactive Deobfuscation“; A very very technical session. Hack.lu 2013 Wrap-Up Day #1 – blog.rootshell.be Hack.lu 2013 Wrap-Up Day [...]

Week 42 In Review – 2013

Events Related SANS FOR610: Reverse Engineering Malware – Course Review – blog.c22.cc What follows is a review of the SANS FOR610: reverse engineering malware class taken at the SANS Prague 2013 event. What follows are rough notes, feelings and impressions from the class as it was taking place. Take it as you will, and we hope [...]

Week 41 In Review – 2013

Resources Louisville Infosec 2013 Videos – www.irongeek.com Here are the videos from Louisville Infosec 2013 conference. BruCON talks – youtube.com BruCON is an annual security and hacker conference providing two days of an interesting atmosphere for open discussions of critical infosec issues, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implications on society. Here are the videos from BruCON [...]