Archive for 2009

11 posts

Security Talks

Yet Another Dan Kaminsky Talk: Hard Drive Operating Systems, Storage XOR Execution, Secure Random By Default, Cryptomnemonics, Ending Use After Free in Browsers, Fast Spoofed DDoS Tracing, NSA Crypto Fallout

Black Ops: Practical System-Wide Timing Attack Defense, Real World Entropy Generation For Devices, Safe String Interpolation, Image Loads For Censorship Detection, Certificate Extraction w/ Flash Sockets, Stateless TCP Sockets

Black Ops of TCP/IP 2011: Bitcoin Cloud Deanon/Data Embedding, External Interface UPNP, TCP SEQ# Attacks Revisited, Generic Password to Asymmetric Key Generation, Net Neutrality Validation

Introducing The Domain Key Infrastructure: Zero Configuration DNSSEC Serving, End-To-End Client Integration w/ UI Via OpenSSL and Secure Proxies, Federated OpenSSH, DNS over HTTP/X.509, Self-Securing URLs, Secure Scalable Email
Interpolique: Where's The Safety in Type Safety?, Preventing Injection Attacks (XSS/SQL) With String Safety, Automatic Query Parameterization, How LISP Was Right About Dynamic Scope, Dynamic DOM Manipulation For Secure Integration of Untrusted HTML
Realism in Web Defense: Why Security Fails, What's Wrong With Session Management On The Web, The Failure Of Referrer Checking, Interpreter Suicide, Towards a Real Session Context, Treelocking, The Beginnings of Interpolique

Staring Into The Abyss: Middleware Fingerprinting, Firewall Rule Bypass, Internal Address Disclosure, Same Origin Attacks Against Proxied Hosts, TCP NAT2NAT via Active FTP And TCP Spoofing
Paper (PDF)
Black Ops Of PKI: Structural Weaknesses of X.509, Architectural Advantages of DNSSEC, ASN.1 Confusion, Null Terminator Attacks Against Certificates
Financial Cryptography Paper

It's The End Of The Cache As We Know It: DNS Server+Client Cache Poisoning, Issues with SSL, Breaking "Forgot My Password" Systems, Attacking Autoupdaters and Unhardened Parsers, Rerouting Internal Traffic
Ad Injection Gone Wild: Subdomain NXDOMAIN injection for Universal Cross Site Scripting

Design Reviewing The Web: DNS Rebinding, VPN to the Browser, Provider Hostility Detection, Audio CAPTCHA Analysis

Pattern Recognition: Net Neutrality Violation Detection, Large Scale SSL Scanning, Securing Online Banking, Cryptomnemonics, Context Free Grammar Fuzzing, Security Dotplots
Weaponizing Noam Chomsky, or Hacking with Pattern Languages: XML Trees For Automatically Extracted Grammar, "CFG9000" Context Free Grammar Fuzzer, Dotplots for Format Identification and Fuzzer Guidance, Tilt Shift Dotplots, Visual Bindiff

Black Ops of TCP/IP 2005.5: Worldwide DNS Scans, Temporal IDS Evasion, the Sony Rootkit, MD5 Conflation of Web Pages

MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday: Applied Attacks Against Simple Collisions Via Malicious Appendage, Executable Confusion, Auditor Bypass, Bit Commitment Shirking, HMAC Implications, Collision Steganography, P2P Attacks Against Kazaa Hash
Slides (PDF)
Black Ops of DNS: Tunneling Audio, Video, and SSH over DNS

Stack Black Ops: Generic ActiveX, SQL for Large Network Scans, Bandwidth Brokering, SSL for IDS's
Slides (PDF)

Gateway Cryptography: SSH Dynamic Forwarding, Securing Meet-In-The-Middle, PPTP over SSH
Advanced OpenSSH (PDF)