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Ange Albertini is a reverse engineer and author of Corkami.
First and foremost he explained what a polyglot file is. A polyglot is a special file that has more than one type in the same file. For example, Ange Albertini demonstrated a polyglot which is a pdf, a pdf reader, a java executable and an html file inside of one file. Continue reading “Caring for file formats”
Continue readingAt TROOPERS16, Dr. Cédric LÉVY-BENCHETON an expert in cyber security at ENISA, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security. Dr. Cédric LÉVY-BENCHETON holds a presentation about cyber security of IoT (Internet of Things) and smart cars he presents the current threats in IoT and Smart cars. ENISA is an agency of the European Union. ENISA assists the Commission, the Member States and, the business community in meeting the requirements of network and information security. Continue reading “The road to secure Smart Cars: ENISA approach”
Continue readingThe talk “QNX: 99 Problems but a Microkernel ain’t one!” was part of the Troopers conference in Heidelberg, 16 March 2016. The talk was done by the researchers Alex Plaskett and Georgi Geshev from the MWR Labs. The MWR Labs is the research department of the cyber security consultancy MWR InfoSecurity located in the UK.
The talk provided an overview of the research on the architecture and security systems of the QNX kernel with focus on the Blackberry 10 operating system. The talk was divided into two parts. First Alex Plaskett gave an introduction regarding the general structure of the QNX operation system and introduced the main subsystems. Second Georgi Geshev presented tools and approaches to abuse vulnerabilities in the QNX system.
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The talk “unrubby: reversing without reversing” was part of the Troopers conference in Heidelberg, 16 March 2016. The talk was done by Richo Healey, who is currently working on the security engineering team at the Irish payment company Stripe. Richo Healey is an experienced conference speaker. Amongst other he has spoken at Kiwicon, DEF CON and 44con.
In his talk Richo Healey spoke about reverse engineering of Ruby software. First he talked about existing tools and techniques to regenerate source code from Ruby bytecode. Then he presented a new concept, which is implemented in his tool “unrubby”.
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Continue readingDenial of Service (DoS) attacks aim to make services and systems unavailable to legitimate users . If these attacks are performed by multiple sources at the same time and for the same target, they are called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This talk “Imma Chargin Mah Lazer” describes different types of (D)DoS attacks that are out in the wild and are seen on a daily basis by different corporations. Furthermore, a multi-layered strategy to mitigate such kinds of attacks has been presented within the talk. The speaker is Dr. Oliver Matula, an IT security researcher at ERNW who holds a PHD degree in physics. He presented the topic in a simple way which eases the delivery of information to audience of different technical levels and backgrounds.
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Continue readingIn their talk “Reverse Engineering a Digital Two Way Radio” Travis Goodspeed and Christiane Ruetten presented the challenges they faced and overcame while reverse engineering “Tytera MD380”, a handheld transceiver for the Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) protocol.
“Tytera MD380” is based around two chips: STM32F405 CPU with an ARM Cortex M4F core and Readout Device Protection and a HRC5000 baseband processor which implements the actual digital radio. While STM32F405 is fully documented, there is no documentation for HRC5000 publicly available but with the help of the Chinese community they were able to obtain the Chinese documentation.
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Continue readingIn his talk I have the Power(View): Offensive Active Directory with PowerShell Will Schroeder, a researcher and Red teamer in Veris Group´s Adaptive Thread Division, presented offensive Active Directory information gathering technics using his Tool PowerView.
PowerView does not use the built in AD cmdlets to be independent from the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)-AD PowerShell Module which is only compatible with PowerShell 3.0+ and by default only installed on servers that have Active Directory services roles. PowerView, however, is compatible with PowerShell 2.0 and has no outer dependencies. Furthermore, it does not require any installation process.
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Continue readingAt the Troopers 16 Casey Smith has given a talk about the gap in Application Whitelisting.
Application Whitelisting is a technique that should prevent malware and unauthorized applications from running. Broadly speaking this is implemented by deciding if an application is trusted or not before executing it. Casey’s talk gave an understanding where this whitelisiting fails down.
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Continue readingAt the TROOPERS’15 Jacob l. Torrey held a track about LangSec-Aware Software Development Lifecycle. He talked about programming conventions and what tools can be used for enforcing the compliance. There is a lack of metrics to understand what make software more secure or less secure. His main goals was to show that LangSec has far-reaching impacts into software security and to give the audience a framework to transform the theory into practice. A SLDC should help to find bugs sooner in the development process and reduce defect rate in production thereby. A lower defect rate in production does not only improve security it also reduces costs.
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Continue readingHi everyone,
Hope those of you who attended Troopers16 enjoyed it as much as we did! In this post I want to summarize my Troopers16 talk and provide you with some details about freshly assigned CVE-2016-1542 and CVE-2016-1543 related to BMC BladeLogic software.
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