I have the pleasure to announce the Active Directory Security Summit 2018 at 13^(th). of November of 2018. The summit covers current Active Directory security related topics such as challenging tasks of hybrid Active Directory operations as well as new security best practices and some ‘evergreens’ – Admin Tiering implementations (what about Exchange and DNS…??), ESAE operations etc. 😉
The primary objective of the Active Directory Security Summit is to bring experts together:
Continue readingWe are very excited to publish some (more to come!) of our photos from TROOPERS18! Based on feedback from #TR18 we would also like to take a moment for our official TROOPERS photographer to introduce himself and tell you a little about what inspires him.
Peter Walter is a 37 year old photographer based in Germany near Stuttgart. For many years now he is the official TROOPERS photographer and very proud to be part of the Troopers family.
Continue readingThis blogpost contains summaries of talks from this year’s TROOPERS18 Attack & Research Track.
USB is everywhere, your phone, gaming consoles, IoT waffle irons, you name it. Due to its’ widespread use in everyday life it is typically trusted by the user. And even if one wanted to find out what’s happening behind the scenes, surely digging into USB communication is too much of a chore to be worth the hassle, right? This talk by Kate Temkin and Dominic Spill are about to prove that very wrong with an impressive display of their tools GreatFET and Facedancer.
Continue readingThis blogpost contains summaries of talks from this year’s TROOPERS18 Defense & Management Track.
The talk “All Your Cloud Belong Are Belong to Us” was held by Nate Warfield, who is a Senior Security Program Manager for the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC).
Before Microsoft he worked as a network engineer about 18 years and 10 of this for a large amount of cell phone companies.
Nate gives an overview about the state of the cloud solution provided by Microsoft, Azure, and how he hunts vulnerabilities in this environment.
Finally he concludes that the giving up your infrastructure to the cloud doesn’t mean that you give up your responsibility.
This blogpost contains summaries of talks from this year’s TROOPERS18 Next Generation Internet Event.
Before his infosec career Graeme was a street performer, then security researcher, now he calls himself a defender. The talk was built around the following sentence: “The infosec industry and community have completely failed to create meaningful change in the behavior of people”.
The following example is a resume of how hacking worked from 1988 to 2017:
Continue readingThis blogpost contains summaries of talks from this year’s TROOPERS18 SAP Security Track.
The Internet Graphics Server (IGS) is used to generate Web Based graphics from the SAP Web AS. Yvan Genuer looked at the security of an ancient component with very few public vulnerabilities available so far. In his talk he gave us insights on the structure of the IGS, its services, and problems he had when looking for documentation of the IGS and its components.
Continue readingThis is a guest blog post by Salvador Mendoza.
During years, many different researches and attacks against digital and physical payment methods have been discussed. New security techniques and methodologies such as tokenization process attempts to reduce or prevent fraudulent transactions.
Extracting or capturing data from a transaction have been studied in different ways, and some of the most common techniques are skimming, wireless skimming, relay attacks, traffic sniffing or modifying a PoS(Point of Sale) system. In our talk, “NFC Payments: The Art of Relay & Replay Attacks” at TROOPERS18, we will discuss a new technique and methodology that malicious individuals could implement to extract data.
Continue readingThis is a guest blog post by Nahuel Grisolia.
The first time I’ve heard about RFID was at high school, back in 2002, when I was studying Electronics. Back in that time, this technology was like some sort of black magic to me. A few years later in 2011, our government in Argentina decided to implement a “new technology” called NFC, designed as the new and only way of payment for the use of public transport. So, I decided to understand it better, play with it, and try some hacks I heard from the cool people of the CCC.
Continue readingIn this article, we describe the impact of the increased use of Docker in corporate environments on forensic investigations and incident analysis. Even though Docker is being used more and more (Portworx, Inc., 2017), the implications of the changed runtime environment for forensic processes and tools have barely been considered. We describe the technological basics of Docker and, based on them, outline the differences that occur with respect to digital evidence and previously used methods for evidence acquisition. Specifically, we look at digital evidence within a Docker container which are lost or need to be acquired in different ways compared to a classical virtual machine, and what new traces and opportunities arise from Docker itself.
Continue readingTROOPERS17 was unlike any TROOPERS we had known before. Everything just seemed bolder, better, and beyond our expectations. From surprise speakers like the grugq (do you have a follow-up talk for #TR18 by the way?) to new speakers who are now TROOPERS family, TROOPERS17 is one for the history books!
If you were there you might be wondering to yourself, how could they possibly top it (and if you were not there check out this video from TR17)? Well, I am not going to lie, it will be a challenge. However, the high quality of talk and training submissions for this year have us feeling pretty positive about making #TR18 the “best year ever”!
Continue reading