HITB2014AMS – Day 2 – Keynote 4: Hack It Forward
Good morning Amsterdam, good morning readers, welcome to the second day of the Hack In The Box conference. The speaker for the first keynote didn’t show up, so we’ll jump right into the next keynote. Jennifer starts her keynote by explaining that she’s fortunate to be able to travel to a lot of conferences and […]
HITB2014AMS – Interview with Katie Moussouris
Hi all, I had the pleasure to meet with Katie Moussouris after her keynote at Hack In The Box. After the announcement that she has left Microsoft and now serves as Chief Policy Offer (CPO) at HackerOne. I wanted to ask her 2 questions about this new step in her carreer: Peter: Why HackerOne? Katie: […]
BlackHatEU2013 – Day2 – Advanced Heap Manipulation in Windows 8
Good afternoon everyone, The next talk I will be covering today is presented by Zhenhua ‘Eric’ Liu, Senior Security researcher at Fortinet. Why doing this type of research. Facts : Exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities are more difficult today, because of OS security improvements and Sandboxing techniques implemented into various applications. Bypassing sandboxes often rely […]
BlackHatEU2013 – Day 1 – To dock or not to dock
Time flies ! After hanging out with @repmovsb and @botherder, it’s time for the last talk of the day. In the “To dock or not to dock, that is the question” talk, Andy Davis, research director at NCC Group shares his research around using laptop docking stations as hardware-based attack platforms. Why docking stations as […]
BlackHatEU2013 – Day1 – Hacking Appliances
The second talk I’m attending today is presented by Ben Williams, who’s going to talk about “Ironic exploitation of security products”. He explains that, as a pentester/researcher for NCC Group, he gets the chance to do fun pentests and break a lot of stuff. In the past year, he was able to work on auditing […]
Happy New Year – here’s my special gift to you, corelanc0d3r
I’m not going to spend a lot of words on this. Facts speak for themselves. A short while ago, I discovered this: http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3031925 (you need to register to get access to the thread). Screenshot : idle-hands profile : Reputation I registered a useraccount “corelanc0d3r” and used the “Report” button, but for some reason my user […]
Corelan T-Shirt contest – Derbycon 2012
If you didn’t register your ticket for the Corelan Live Exploit Development training at Derbycon 2012, then there is bad news for you… We’re sold out. Not all is lost though. For the second year in a row, Corelan Team is giving away one free ticket to the Corelan Live training at Derbycon 2012, which […]
Debugging Fun – Putting a process to sleep()
Recently I played with an older CVE (CVE-2008-0532, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489463, by FX) and I was having trouble debugging the CGI executable where the vulnerable function was located.
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HaXx.Me #3 – Corelan Team documentation
Last week (oct 17 2010), Lincoln (one of the Corelan Team members) informed the other team members about an ongoing hacking challenge (HaXx.Me #03) organized and hosted by MaXe (@intern0t). When I saw his message, it was already Sunday night and I knew I had to get up early the next day. Nevertheless I chose […]