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IPv6 for Managers

We’re currently involved in a number of IPv6 activities in different organizations and one of the questions we are still facing – even in cases where there’s already a (in most cases networking team driven/originated) “project” (incl. budget, project sponsor, milestones etc.) – is along the lines of “How to sell IPv6 to our management?”.

In the following I will shortly lay out the line of reasoning and the terminology we usually employ for the task. Furthermore I’ve anonymized a presentation which we recently prepared as “input” for the network team of an enterprise organization; it can be found here. In case you want to get this as a PPT (for recyling purposes) pls send me a direct email (in exchange, we might ask you for a small donation of your will to the Troopers charity project… ).

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IPv6 Requirements for Cloud Service Providers

Some weeks ago, at RIPE 68 in Warsaw, Sander Steffann gave a presentation about revising RIPE 554 which, in his own words, “is a template guideline for procurement of stuff that should do IPv6” (here’s the steganography transcript of the IPv6 working group session). Some of you will probably know RIPE 554 as a quite helpful document for identifying reasonable real-world requirements for IPv6 capable network devices (in particular at times when vendors quite willingly put an “IPv6 ready” sticker on all their gear…).

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m0n0wall as an IPv6 firewall

This is a guest post from Antonios Atlasis

Last October I had a quick look at pfSense 2.1 regarding the IPv6 support that it offers. It was the first stable support of pfSense that offered the capability for IPv6 network connectivity (a few comments about it can be found here). However, I knew that m0n0wall supported IPv6 quite a long time ago and that their developers had incorporated the support of IPv6 features which are not available in pfSense yet, so today I decided to have a look at it too.

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Breaking

A Novel Way of Abusing IPv6 Extension Headers to Evade IPv6 Security Devices

(Or How the Smallest Detail Can Make a Difference)

This is a guest post from Antonios Atlasis.

 

As it is well known to the IPv6 enthusiasts, one of the most significant changes that IPv6 brings with it, apart from supporting a really huge address space, is the improved support for Extensions and Options, which is achieved by the usage of IPv6 Extension headers. According to RFC 2460, “changes in the way IP header options are encoded allows for more efficient forwarding, less stringent limits on the length of options, and greater flexibility for introducing new options in the future.” So, by adding IPv6 Extension headers, according to the designers of the protocol, flexibility and efficiency in the IP layer is improved.

This can definitely be the case, but apart from it, it has already been shown that by abusing IPv6 Extension headers several security issues may arise (see for example my presentations at  Black Hat Abu Dhabi 2012 and at the IPv6 Security Summit @ Troopers 13). This is why Enno Rey by talking straight to the point at the latest IPv6 Security Summit @ Troopers 14 described the IPv6 Extension headers as a “mess”!

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IPv6 Address Plan Considerations, Part 3: The Plan ;-)

This is the third – and hence presumably last – part of the series of posts on IPv6 address planning (first part can be found here, second one here). It’s split into three main pieces. In the beginning I will lay out some general objectives to be considered when designing an address plan. Then I’ll have a look at potential hierarchy levels and finally I’ll discuss some real-life samples we’ve seen recently.

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The Three Billion Dollar App – Some Notes on My Upcoming Troopers Talk

This is a guest post from Vladimir Wolstencroft from our friends of aura information security
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Mobile messaging applications have been occupying people’s attention and it seems to be all the latest news. Perhaps I should have called my presentation the 19 Billion dollar app but at the time of writing and research I thought the proposed 3 Billion dollar amount for SnapChat was a little ludicrous, who could have known that would have been just a drop in the ocean.

Upon starting, I decided to compare two mobile messaging applications that shared a relatively unique capability, self-destructing messaging. However the applications execute this in two very different ways. Looking at SnapChat with it’s millions of users and supposedly secure ephemeral messaging seemed like a good start. I also wanted something a little more secure, we have all heard and seen “snaps” leaked and displayed online so I had inkling that there might have been some serious holes within the application.

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Breaking

A Short Teaser on My New IPv6 Testing Framework

This is a guest post from Antonios Atlasis
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Hi,

my name is Antonios and I am an independent IT Security Researcher from Greece. One of my latest “hobbies” is IPv6 and its potential insecurities so, please let me talk to you about my latest experience on this.

This week, I had the opportunity to work together with the ERNW guys at their premises. They had built an IPv6 lab that included several commercial IPv6 security devices (firewalls, IDS/IPS and some high-end switches) and they kindly offered their lab to me to play with (thank you guys 🙂 – I always liked …expensive toys). The goal of this co-operation was two-fold: First, to test my new (not yet released) IPv6 pen-testing tool and secondly, to try to find out any IPv6-related security or operational issues on these devices (after all, they all claim that they are “IPv6-Ready”, right?).

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Analyzing a CVE-2013-3346/CVE-2013-5065 Exploit with peepdf

This is a guest post from Jose Miguel Esparza (@EternalTodo)

 

There are already some good blog posts talking about this exploit, but I think this is a really good example to show how peepdf works and what you can learn if you attend the workshop “Squeezing Exploit Kits and PDF Exploits” at Troopers14.  The mentioned exploit was using the Adobe Reader ToolButton Use-After-Free vulnerability to execute code in the victim’s machine and then the Windows privilege escalation 0day to bypass the Adobe sandbox and execute a new payload without restrictions.

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Preliminary Agenda for Troopers 2014 Telco Sec Day

Given we’ve received a number of inquiries as for the agenda of this year’s TelcoSecDay here’s a first preliminary agenda. To get an idea of the event’s character you might have a look at the agenda of the 2012 edition or the 2013 edition. Pls note that there might be changes/additions to the following outline as we’re currently discussing potential contributions with two European operators. Here we go, for today:

9:00: Opening Remarks & Introduction
9:15: Ravi Borgaonkor – Evolution of SIM Card Security
10:15: Break
10:45: Adrian Dabrowski
11:45: Collin Mulliner – PatchDroid – Third Party Security Patches for Android
12:30: Lunch
13:45: Philippe Langlois
14:45: Break
15:15: Haya Shulman – The Illusion of Challenge-Response Authentication
16:00: Christian Sielaff & Daniel Hauenstein – Breaking Network Monitoring Tools Used in Telco Space
16:30: Closing Remarks
19:00: Joint dinner (hosted by ERNW) in Heidelberg Altstadt for those interested and/or staying for the main conference

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IPv6 Address Plan Considerations, Part 2: The “PI Space from (Single|Multiple) RIR(s) Debate”

This is the second part of the – presumably – three-part series on IPv6 address planning which I started here.

Before an enterprise organization (strictly speaking “their internal service provider acting as LIR”, as laid out in the first part) starts assigning prefix[es]/lengths to their networks usually another discussion has to be undertaken & solved: “go with one /32 [PI space] from one RIR or apply for /32s from several RIRs”.

The background of this reflection is mainly them being concerned along the lines: how do we know if $PROVIDER in some part of the world is actually going to route our PI space, in particular if that’s allocated from ‘a foreign RIR’?

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