Events

Once again, we are super excited to announce that Blackhoodie is happening at Troopers 2020. This is the 3rd time that Blackhoodie is joining with Troopers. As always, one of the main motivation for Blackhoodie is bringing more women into reversing and other core security topics. So we would like to see more women apply to the training slots. However, if you are not a woman and still feel really excited about Blackhoodie, you are welcome to apply. The registration is open now.  Please hurry up and make your registration now. We will close the registration once the seats are filled up with enough quality submissions. We do have a very limited number of seats at this training site. So we apologize in advance if we can’t accommodate everyone, even though we wish we could!

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Our workshop “TLS in the enterprise” was held for the first time at Troopers 2018 and was our special contribution to the IT Security world to increase the usage of TLS and point out the pitfalls, when switching to TLS.

But time is changing and TLS is a kind of standard nowadays, at least when looking at HTTPS, but there are still a lot of things to do regarding other protocols like

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Containerization dominates the market nowadays. Fancy buzzwords like continuous integration/deployment/delivery, microservices, containers, DevOps are floating around, but what do they mean? What benefits do they offer compared to the old dogmas? You’re gonna find out in our training!

We are going to start with the basics of Docker, Containers and DevOps, but soon you’ll end up with your own applications running inside containers with the images residing in your own registry. Of course, following the microservices approach, and the second day hasn’t even started.After the fundamental topics of containerization are understood, you’re going to create and operate your own Kubernetes cluster. A lot of fun and challenging exercises lie ahead, to give you hands-on experience with all the technologies.

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Some time ago I had the pleasure to speak at the BASTA! Autumn 2019 conference. There, I promised to publish my slides such that they can be used as a reference for developers and security guys like me. And with this blog post I would like to hold up to my promise.

Overall, the talk was about the challenges of “How to bring security into modern DevOps processes”. Hence, I demonstrated how security can be integrated more or less seamlessly into the modern agile software development workflow. I proposed some risk-depended recommendations about which measurements should be established, for example, within the CI pipeline.

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“If it’s a thing, then there’s an app for it!”…We trust mobile apps to process our bank transactions, handle our private data and set us up on romantic dates. However, few of us care to wonder,”How (in)secure can these apps be?” Well… at Troopers 20, you can learn how to answer this question yourself!

In our 2 day long “Hacking mobile apps” workshop, we teach how to find security vulnerabilities in mobile apps, exploit them and defend against them. We start from scratch, therefore no prior experience in hacking or developing mobile apps is required. Whether you want to learn how to pentest mobile apps, you are an app developer that fancies to secure his/her apps, or just curios, our workshop is a jumpstart to your goal.

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Windows 10 is one of the most commonly deployed operating systems at this time. Knowledge about its components and internal working principles is highly beneficial. Among other things, such a knowledge enables:

• in-depth studies of undocumented, or poorly documented, system functionalities;
• development of performant and compatible software to monitor or extend the activities of the operating system itself; and
• analysis of security-related issues, such as persistent malware.

The “Insight into Windows Internals” training offered at TROOPERS20 delivers knowledge on the core components and inner working principles of Windows 10. For example, the training provides knowledge on how Windows 10 uses virtualization to isolate security-critical functionalities from attackers that have managed to compromise the system. The training includes a variety of practical exercises allowing attendees to observe first-hand the operation of Windows 10.

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This week I was at DevSecCon in London to present my current research on Red Hat OpenShift. In this talk, I gave a brief introduction to OpenShift, demonstrated some threats that exist for such environments, and dived into different configuration issues that may affect the security of OpenShift environments. The implications of misconfigurations of such an environment have been shown in live demos.

You can find the slides for my talk here.

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Hi there,
like in recent years the popular Hacking 101 workshop will take place on TROOPERS20, too! The workshop will give you an insight into the hacking techniques required for penetration testing. These techniques will cover various topics:

• Information gathering
• Network scanning
• Web application hacking
• Low-level exploitation

…and more!

During this workshop you will learn, step by step, a testing methodology that applies to the majority of scenarios. So imagine you have to assess the security of a system running on the Internet. How would you start? First, you need a good understanding of the target, including running services or related systems. Just scanning the target’s IP address will most likely not reveal all relevant information you can get. In the information gathering step, you will learn where you could find more relevant information than just a list of open ports. A brief understanding of the target and it’s related systems/services/applications will make scanning and identifying vulnerabilities a lot easier and more effective. Then, the last step will be the exploitation of the identified vulnerabilities, with the ultimate aim to get access to the target system and pivot to other, probably internal, systems and resources.

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We are happy to announce that TROOPERS20 will feature the 5th anniversary of the popular Windows & Linux Binary Exploitation workshop!

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to exploit those nasty stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities by applying the theoretical methods taught in this course to hands-on exercises. Exercises will be performed for real world (32-bit) software such as the Foxit Reader Plugin for Firefox, Wireshark, and nginx.

Each exercise will start with an initially uncontrolled overwrite of the instruction pointer register by a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. From there on, we will work our way through many obstacles to finally gain remote code execution. Obstacles that will be encountered during the exercises include modern stack-based buffer overflow defense mechanisms such as stack cookies, data execution prevention (DEP), and address space layout randomization (ASLR). For all of these defense mechanisms, attendees will learn and apply certain methods to bypass the protection.

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*This event will be held in German*

Inspiriert durch die erfolgreichen Round-Table-Diskussionen der TROOPERS-Konferenz freuen wir uns, Ihnen heute mit dem Medical Device Security Summit 2019, eine weitere Veranstaltung in einer Reihe zu Trend-Themen im Bereich der IT-Sicherheit vorzustellen.

Die Veranstaltung beginnt am Morgen mit einem Eröffnungsvortrag von Peter Hecko (Leiter der IT-Sicherheit bei HELIOS IT Service GmbH, Podcaster und jahrelanges Mitglied im CCC), gefolgt von Fallstudien und Vorträgen von ERNW Experten und weiteren Referenten aus der Lehre, Industrie und klinischer Praxis.

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