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Keynote #1 Troopers 2016

The first Keynote directly after the Opening by Enno Rey was held by Ben Zevenbergen. At the beginning he pointed out that he is not a very technical guy rather he specialized in Information Law and a policy advisor to the European Parliament. Before he started to dive into his Keynote he talked about some rant story’s which happened to him while trying to make his point clear on previous conferences and that he came in peace to Troopers ;).

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How easy to grow robust botnet with low hanging fruits (IoT) – for free

Attila Marosi works as a Senior Threat Research at Sophos Labs in Hungary. His talk focused on vulnerable IoT devices that are exposed to the internet. His approach was to look for vulnerable devices with low cost tools and publicly available data.

He started his talk with the spoiler that he is not going to reveal any new attacks nor new techniques. But newer data are more adequate and we can see the current state of vulnerable devices connected to the internet. This means his approach was to test the state of IoT devices like Routers, NAS and so on with publicly available data. Continue reading “How easy to grow robust botnet with low hanging fruits (IoT) – for free”

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Troopers Netmon

Hi everybody,

Christopher talked already about our WiFi Network during the IPv6 Security Summit and mentioned our monitoring system (we like to call “netmon”). As there were quite some people interested in the detailed setup and configuration, we would like to share the details with you. This year we used a widely known frontend called Grafana and as backend components InfluxDB and collectd. During Troopers the monitoring system was public reachable over IPv6 and provided statistics about Uplink Bandwidth, IP Protocol Distribution, Clients and Wireless Bands.

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Generic RAID Reassembly using Block-Level Entropy

DFRWS EU 2016 Talk Forensic Raid Recovery
DFRWS EU 2016 Talk Forensic Raid Recovery

We just presented our Paper “Generic RAID Reassembly using Block-Level Entropy” at the DFRWS EU 2016 digital forensics conference (http://www.dfrws.org/). The article is about a new approach that we developed for forensic RAID recovery. Our technique calculates block-wise entropy all over the disks and uses generic heuristics on those to detect all the relevant RAID parameters such as stripe size, stripe map, disk order, and RAID type, that are needed to reassemble the RAID and make the data accessible again for forensic investigations (or just for data recovery).

We developed an open source implementation of our approach that is freely available at https://www1.cs.fau.de/content/forensic-raid-recovery/. The tool is able to recover RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5 volumes from the single disks or disk images.
It is also able to recover a missing or failed disk in case of RAID 5 systems from the RAID redundancy information.

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IPv6 Security Summit – Track 2

The Troopers experience will never be the same without the “IPv6 summit”. It is one of kind of two-day special event where different security experts gather to discuss IPv6 current challenges. It addresses different topics ranging from a broad introduction of the IPv6 to how secure the protocol  is and what  the latest standards are.

The summit is divided into 2 different tracks that run simultaneously. For the first day on the second track, Christopher Werny and Rafael Schaefer have carried out the first three sessions. Continue reading “IPv6 Security Summit – Track 2”

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Attacking Next-Generation Firewalls

Felix Wilhelm presented in his talk various ways to attack his new target – The PA-500 which is produced by Palo Alto Networks.

He discovered vulnerabilities in 3 different exposed aspects of the device. The first vulnerability occurred inside of an unauthenticated API from the Management-Website which could only be accessed within the Admin Network. This vulnerability was a typical off-by-one Command Injection, which could be abused by reaching out to the API with a special client=wget Request.

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The Joy of Sandbox Mitigations

This year at TROOPERS16 in Heidelberg we welcomed James Forshaw for his talk about “The Joy of Sandbox Mitigations“.

He is a security researcher in Google’s Project Zero. He has been involved with computer hardware and software security for over 10 years looking at a range of different platforms and applications. With a great interest in logical vulnerabilities he has numerous disclosures in a wide range of products from web browsers to virtual machine breakouts as well as being a Pwn2Own and Microsoft Mitigation Bypass bounty winner. He has spoken at a number of security conferences including Black Hat USA, CanSecWest, Bluehat, HITB, and Infiltrate. Continue reading “The Joy of Sandbox Mitigations”

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Security Evaluation of Dual-Stack Systems [Troopers 2016 recap] (Part 1)

Dear Readers of Insinuator,

tldr;This blogpost presents a measurement study of a current security state regarding to open ports on a direct comparison of IPv4 and IPv6. The study analyses almost 58,000 dual-stacked domains in order to find discrepancies in applied security policies. We further discuss the potential reasons and, more importantly, the implications of the identified differences. \tldr;

For those of you who couldn’t participate at Troopers Conference 2016 in Heidelberg or watch my talk at the IPv6 Security Summit, I want to recap some of the most important parts of my research in this blogpost.

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