If a conference feels like a great vacation, then the organizers are doing it absolutely right! Hack.lu took place for the 14th time in Luxembourg. From the 16th – 18th October, the Alvisse Parc Hotel hosted the Hack.lu conference. Those three days were full of talks, workshops and “discussions about computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society“. Some members of the ERNW crew had the chance to attend Hack.lu this year and we all enjoyed it a lot!
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Hack.lu 2018: Fuzzing Workshop by René Freingruber
I was at the hack.lu conference in Luxembourg this year and attended the fuzzing workshop, held by René Freingruber from SEC Consult. I have been curious about this topic for some years now, but besides doing some manual fuzzing and web-fuzzing, I never looked into the whole topic that much.
The workshop lasted for around four hours. Before the workshop started each student got two VMs (Linux/Windows) where everything necessary was already set up. The VMs included 23 exercises, with step-by-step explanations, source code and exploits. René started out with an introduction to fuzzing, listing popular fuzzers and showing an example on how to fuzz with afl.
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