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As one of the founders of WarDrivingWorld.com, where over the past few years we have sold thousands of WiFi devices and antennas for Pen testing and extended range WiFi, I will be presenting simple, but very effective techniques for extending the range of WiFi beyond the standard 15-30 meter range to 3-5 km, or more using home brew components. Pilgrim is an ancient hacker who came from the tombs of Egypt. In those days punch cards ruled the..
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We hear it in the news all too frequently, "26 IRS tapes containing taxpayer information potentially contain taxpayers' names, SSNs, bank account numbers, or employer information", "tapes containing customer information were stolen from a lock box... 196,000 names, SSN, etc", "disappearance of 9 tapes containing payroll information on 52,000 employees, including SSNs and in some cases bank account numbers. The 9th tape contained "less sensi....
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The process of obfuscating intermediate platform independent code, such as Java bytecode or Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code aims to make the source code generated by reverse engineering much less useful to an attacker or competitor. This talk focuses on the examination of fingerprinting particular obfuscators and provides a tool capable of cracking key obfuscation processes performed. As more programming languages use intermediate p....
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Richard Thieme: Hacking UFOlogy: Thirty Years in the Wilderness of Mirrors
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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You're over the line," an intelligence professional told Richard Thieme recently. "You know enough to know what's not true but you can't know enough to know what is. You're well into the wilderness of mirrors." Hacking one complex system is always in some ways like hacking another. You must see nested levels of the context that others assume and which is therefore invisible, you must see through the story that the system tells about i....
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Privacy is an increasingly scarce commodity. It is a state that must be preserved, and in many cases, enforced. In prior history, you could expect your person and affects to be relatively private, however with so much data available for mining, and so many practices eroding ones privacy, one can have little to no expectation of privacy, unless you provide it to yourself. The problem in the past has been that encryption, networking, and anon....
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Locksport is nothing new, but it's recent attention in the media and sudden growth have made it a popular topic. This talk will settle some of the bigger debates about the Locksport community. Are we criminals? Are we having a positive impact on modern security? Who started it? Who's advancing the field? And, why do we do it? This talk will cover a brief history of locks, but will focus primarily on how the locksport community has gro....
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Real-time Transfer Protocol (RTP) is used almost ubiquitously by Voice over IP technologies to provide an audio channel for calls. As such, it provides ample opportunity for creation of a covert communications channel due to it's very nature and use in implementation. While use of steganographic techniques with various audio cover-mediums has been extensively researched, most applications of such have been limited to audio cover-medium of a....
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Having seen the ads this last holiday season, you think you might know all there is to know about the new crop of console game systems. But are these, and other console game systems, just for fun and games? Could they be used for other purposes?? Yes they can. With the advent of more powerful consoles many systems have the ability to do just about anything - after all they are still computers. Two years ago I gave a presentation at ToorC....
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Fuzzing and other runtime testing techniques are great at finding certain kinds of bugs. The trick is, effective fuzzing requires a lot of customization. The fuzzer needs to understand the protocol being spoken, anticipate the kinds of things that could go wrong in the program, and have some way to judge whether or not the program has gone into a tailspin. Get this setup wrong, and you end up fuzzing the wrong thing, exercising and re-exerc....
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Currently, those interested in learning how to professionally conduct Information System Penetration Tests have very little options available to them - they can either illegally attack Internet-connected systems, or create their own PenTest Lab. For those who prefer to avoid legal complications, they really only have the last option - a lab. However, this can be a very complicated and expensive alternative. In addition, scenarios have to be....
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What keeps a hacker up at night? What issues and projects keep Agent X from getting a good night's sleep? This turbo-rant will present 22 things that make the night seem long and morning far off. Technology challenges, social challenges. Issues with the hacker scene, issues with the way the world works. Agent X: Jesse Krembs is co-founder of the Hacker Foundation and former president. He travels widely performing radio survey & instal..
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Paul Sebastian Ziegler: Multiplatform malware within the .NET-Framework
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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Multiplatform Malware - many of us have heard that term. Discussions on this matter arose a few month ago and they didn't cease yet. But while many people have taken interest in this matter there still isn't much of a common sense around. The time has come to change this! In this speech you will learn about a) the current status of multiplatform malware b) the possibilities multiplatform malware opens up for an attacker c) differen....
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The time for secure encrypted VoIP for the masses is upon us. The Zfone Project has come a long way in the two years since Phil Zimmermann demoed a prototype at Black Hat. It's now a family of products, running on Symbian and Windows mobile phones, soft VoIP clients on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and in the Asterisk PBX, in both open source and commercial products. Zfone lets you whisper in someone's ear from a thousand miles away. Ph....
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Iftach Ian Amit: The Inherent Insecurity of Widgets and Gadgets
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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Widgets (or Gadgets) are small applications, which usually provide some kind of visual information or access to a frequently used function. Because widgets are in fact applications, they too can include malicious code. Furthermore, due to the simplicity of legitimate widgets, such as calculators and clocks, they are developed without security in mind. In this presentation, we will explain the three different types of widgets in detail....
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Network admission control (NAC), network access protection (NAP), network access control (NAC), and many other acronyms refer to a technology which aim to provide with access control verification before (and after) allowing an element to access the network. Unfortunately due to the lack of standardization, and the diversity of solutions, many (if not must) NAC solutions suffer form a multitude of weaknesses impacting the deployment, i....
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Get the latest information about how the law is racing to catch up with technological change from staffers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the nation's premiere digital civil liberties group fighting for freedom and privacy in the computer age. This session will include updates on current EFF issues such as NSA wiretapping (with newly released technical information), using the Freedom of Information Act to dumpster dive with the law,....
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Sometimes even the top dudes need a refresher course. Remedial Heap Overflows is not so much a lesson to the lame, but a refresher for the leet. One day the speaker was approached (in a subway, of course) by a top-notch dude (who has his own posse) and asked how they work. Clearly not even the best of the best always know everything. atlas, a disciple of the illustrious Skodo, has a history in programming, systems support, telec..
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Andrea Barisani & Daniele Bianco: Injecting RDS-TMC Traffic Information Signals a.k.a. How to freak out your Satellite Navigation.
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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RDS-TMC is a standard based on RDS (Radio Data System) for communicating over FM radio Traffic Information for Satellite Navigation Systems. All modern in-car Satellite Navigation systems sold in Europe use RDS-TMC to receive broadcasts containing up to date information about traffic conditions such as queues and accidents and provide detours in case they affect the plotted course. The system is increasingly being used around Europe a....
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If you're responsible for the burglar alarm at your facility, do you understand how it's being monitored by the "Data Monitoring Group" flunkees? Are all those alarm conditions real? The Completion Backward Principle covers issues arising from Internet-enabled monitoring of burglar alarm systems, and possible mitigations. Spot The Fed will most assuredly be played at this talk. For the past seventeen years, geoffrey has been a Fac..
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John "jur1st" Benson: Bridging the Gap Between Technology and the Law
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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The recent case of Julie Amero has cast a bright spotlight on the difference in understanding between the worlds of technology and the law. We will examine adoption of technology within the legal profession, trial court decisions, as well as legislative and appellate decisions which may be inconsistent with generally accepted security measures. John Benson is the co-chair of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association Computer Law and..
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Peter Berghammer: A Journalist's Perspective on Security Research
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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The presentation details the process whereby journalists select, discard, research and ultimately publish security related articles. It outlines the credibility necessary for security researchers to be taken seriously in the presentation of their findings and examines the "blowback" that criminal and kiddie hackers have on the security industry from a journalists perspective. This talk also looks at the current practices of legitimate ....
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Intrusion Analysis has been primarily reserved for network junkies and bit biters. However, due to the advances in network systems automation we now have time to pay more attention to subtle observations left by attackers at the scene of the incident. Century old sciences have enabled criminal investigators the ability attribute attacks to specific individuals or groups. Sean M. Bodmer is an active developer and deployer of intrusion ..
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Last semester I taught a new course in "Ethical Hacking and Network Defense" at City College San Francisco. I had legal, ethical, and practical concerns about this class, so I took several precautions to prevent the students from one another, and others from them. The course was a success--it was full and popular, and there were no security problems (at least none that I found out about). We have built hacking into our Computer Netwo..
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Sergey Bratus: Entropy-based data organization tricks for log and packet capture browsing.
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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I will show how entropy, a measure of information content defined by Shannon in 1948, can provide useful ways of organizing and analyzing log data. In particular, we use entropy and mutual information heuristics to group syslog records and packet captures in such a way as to bring out anomalies and summarize the overall structure in each particular data set. I will show a modification of Ethereal that is based on these heuristics,....
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Taylor Brinton & Brett Neilson: Being in the know... Listening to and understanding modern radio systems
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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Being in the know" is key to supporting or violating a security infrastructure. Whether you're taking over the Taco Bell drive through or listening in during a presidential visit, being armed with the right information could drastically affect your outcome and ultimately lead to your success. This talk will focus on modern radio systems and the challenges of listening to them. We will provide information on several utilities and resources t....
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Cross Site Scripting has received much attention over the last several years, although some of its more ominous implications have not received much attention. Anti-DNS pinning is a relatively new threat that, while not well understood by most security professionals, is far from theoretical. This presentation will focus on a live demonstration of anti-DNS pinning techniques. A victim web browser will be used to execute arbitrary, interactive....
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Have you tried to firewall a machine from itself? Have you ever tried to protect a machine with a multi-personality disorder? These questions are brought to us by the wonderful technology of virtualization. Though the technology is clearly sexy, security has clearly been an afterthought. While every product claims isolation, it seems that's only when you don't have an attacker involved. Despite what the press releases say, it's not ..
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Anton Chuvakin & Mike Murray: The Science Of Social engineering: NLP
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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Social engineering has traditionally been more of an art than a science, we try different things, and if they work, we continue to use them over and over again. Some of the best social engineers have developed excellent technique even without understanding why what they're doing works. Mike & Anton are skilled communicators trained in NLP, hypnosis, FACS and other sciences of influence, and will present (and demonstrate) some of the cutting....
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Robert Clark: Computer and Internet Security Law?A Year in Review 2006?2007
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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This presentation reviews the important prosecutions, precedents and legal opinions of the last year that affect internet and computer security. We will discuss the differences between legal decisions from criminal cases and civil lawsuits and what that means to the security professional. Additionally, we look at topics such as: email retention and discovery; active response; use of CFAA as non-competition methods; identity theft and notifi....
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Satellite imagery was once restricted to organizations like CTU, but now it is freely available to us all via powerful free online tools and commercial services. In this talk we will look at commercial collection platforms and capabilities, orbital mechanics and a variety of imagery analysis techniques. We will analyze examples from interesting places around the world and explore issues surrounding the future of satellite surveillance. ..
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The core of the security problem is that most software contains latent bugs, and many of these bug can be exploited by attackers to cause the software to do something undesirable to the victim's computer. To block this threat, one can either use only perfect software (of which there is a shortage :) or use a security system to control what software may and may not do. The problem is that such systems are historically very difficult to use....
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Lee Kushner & Mike Murray: Creating and Managing your Security Career
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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Careers in information security are often difficult to navigate, with the industry changing more and more radically every year. We're going to talk about the important skills, traits and knowledge that a security pro needs, not just the usual stuff (like "go get a CISSP"), we're going to come from the perspective of two people who spend much of their time talking to hiring managers and companies looking for security stars, as well as talkin....
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Jesse 'x30n' D'Aguanno: LAN Protocol Attacks Part 1 - Arp Reloaded
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Ever wanted to hijack a connection between machines on a LAN, deny service between a host you're attacking and a log server or intrusion detection system, or maybe wanted to sniff traffic on a switched network? Now you can! Er, wait... You already could with the ARP attacks we all know and love. While these network attacks are quite effective, they do have their weaknesses, as well as security controls to help prevent them. In this ....
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Hacking Social Lives: MySpace.com. This presentation will discuss how to hack MySpace.com using web application hacking methods implementing minimal tools outside of the internet, a text editor, and a cookie editor. How to find exploits will be discussed, as well as what to do with the exploits. Multiple exploits will be revealed and broken down. MySpace XSS filter evasion will be discussed. Session hijacking using cookies provided f....
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Dead Addict: Picking up the Zero Day; An Everyones Guide to Unexpected Disclosures
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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Security researchers around the world have been SLAPPed (strategic lawsuits against public participation) across the face by vulnerable software vendors. Bogus legal threats intended to intimidate and prevent public exposure of vulnerabilities are becoming increasingly common. If the software industry succeeds at silencing these researchers the public, governments, global industries, and end user customers are ill served and increasingly....
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What would you do if you had a massive collection of malware? What secrets could you uncover? This rapid fire presentation seeks to reveal some of these secrets based on the analysis of Offensive Computing's large malware collection. (Over 100,000 samples) What are malware author's commonly using to pack their binaries? What are the rarest packers, and could this indicated a targeted attack? How do Anti-Virus companies generally perform on ....
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Jared DeMott & Panel: Revolutionizing the Field of Grey-box Attack Surface Testing with Evolutionary Fuzzing
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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Runtime code coverage analysis is feasible and useful when application source code is not available. An evolutionary test tool receiving such statistics can use that information as fitness for pools of sessions to actively learn the interface protocol. We call this activity grey-box fuzzing. We intend to show that, when applicable, grey-box fuzzing is more effective at finding bugs than RFC compliant or capture-replay mutation black-box ....
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Ganesh Devarajan: Unraveling SCADA Protocols: Using Sulley Fuzzer
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Firstly, I will be covering the basics of SCADA networks and give a general overview of the SCADA protocols namely Modbus, DNP3, ICCP and IEC standards. North America mainly uses Modbus, DNP3 and to an extent ICCP, the European countries use the IEC standards. After the basics I will be getting into the finer details of the protocols as to what function code, internal indication flags does what and how that can be used to attack or take dow....
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Tor project, an anonymous communication system for the Internet that has been funded by both the US Navy and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Roger Dingledine is a security and privacy researcher. While at MIT he developed Free Haven, one of the early peer-to-peer systems that emphasized resource management while retaining anonymity for its users. He is best known for leading the Tor project, an anonymous communication system ..
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Today there is a lot of hype around some new proof-of-concept technology or around politically motivated trojans, etc. This talk will deliver a reality check, give an idea what kind of malware the McAfee Research organisation is actually seeing to be used in the real world and show how the different trojans work, what the impact is. The material used are internal statistics of the various threats sent to or discovered by us, some more detai....
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Steve Dunker: Every thing you ever wanted to know about Police Procedure in 50 minutes.
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Ever wonder just what rules law enforcement must follow? When do the police have to read you the Miranda Warnings? Who is subject to a Stop and Frisk? When does Double Jeopardy apply. What does a cop actually have to know before they can legally stop you? What is the effect of an Invalid arrest? Just when can the SWAT team kick your door without knocking first? When must an officer have a search warrant? During the "Ask the Crimi..
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Luiz Eduardo: The Hacker Society around the (corporate) world.
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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I will talk about the evolution and differences of the hacking communities around the world. Why and how this affects the hackers being taken to the corporate life, motivations, or just why is it better to stay totally underground. How companies attract and manage hackers, and how the scare them away. Computers are cool now, like the tshirt says, and small kids already know what ip addresses are, how to use netstat, etc. Is security gonna b....
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Kernel vulnerabilities are often deemed unexploitable or at least unlikely to be exploited reliably. Although it's true that kernel-mode exploitation often presents some new challenges for exploit developers, it still all boils down to "creative debugging" and knowledge about the target in question. This talk intends to demystify kernel-mode exploitation by demonstrating the analysis and reliable exploitation of three different kernel....
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Nathan S. Evans & Christian Grothoff: Routing in The Dark: Pitch Black
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
There is a pervasive dream about a free Internet which is robust, fully decentralized yet efficient, and which ensures privacy for all users. For seven years, the Freenet project has been the most visible embodiment of this vision. This talk will show that the recent 0.7 release of Freenet -- marketed to solve most of the problems -- entirely fails to deliver. Freenet 0.7 promises efficient routing in restricted-ro....
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