Some of us had the pleasure to participate in this year’s Daycon VII, three days of Real Hacking and Relevant Content, in Dayton, OH. The event began on September 16th with the Packetwars bootcamp. We had the chance to teach some really promising young students and to prepare them for the Packetwars battle that was scheduled four days later. The students had to go through topics like Windows security, network security and web application security both practical and in theory.
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SLES 11 Hardening Guide
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) has been around since 2000. As it is designed to be used in an enterprise environment the security of these systems must be kept at a high level. SLES implements a lot of basic security measures that are common in most Linux systems, but are these enough to protect your business? We think that with a little effort you can raise the security of your SLES installation a lot.
Continue readingSummary of Talks Held at HITB 2013 – Day 1
This is a short summary of some selected talks from the first day of this year’s Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam.
Abusing Twitter’s API and OAuth Implementation by Nicolas Seriot
Nicolas Seriot (https://twitter.com/nst021) is an iOS Cocoa developer with an interest in privacy and security. He is currently a mobile applications developer and project manager in Switzerland. Nicolas focused his talk on the extraction of consumer tokens that are needed for OAuth to authenticate a consumer to a service provider. These tokens can then be used by rogue applications to gain access to a victims twitter account.
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This is a short summary of some selected talks from the second day of this year’s Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam.
Rethinking the Front Lines by Bob Lord
Bob Lord is currently the Director of Information Security at Twitter. He has worked at numerous companies in the area of security and software engineering.
In his keynote for the second day of HITB13AMS he tackled a topic that has raised a lot of discussions in the past months. His talk was a summary of what twitter does internally to ensure the security of the company and a plea to implement so called security awareness trainings for employees in a sustainable way.
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