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Intercepting GSM Traffic
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
This talk is about GSM security. The will explain the security, technology and protocols of a GSM network. The will further present a solution to build a GSM scanner for 900 USD. The second part...
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Sub-Prime PKI: Attacking Extended Validation SSL
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One of the attributes that the paper discusses is the type of SSL certificate presented by a web server when negotiating a secure connection. Modern web browsers support both Domain Validated (DV)...
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Disclosing Private Information From Metadata, Hidden Info and Lost Data
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Documents contain metadata and hidden information that can be used to disclose private data and to fingerprint an organization and its network computers. This document shows what kinds of data can...
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Anti-Forensics: The Rootkit Connection
July 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Conventional rootkits tend to focus on defeating forensic live incident response and network monitoring using a variety of concealment strategies (e.g. hooking, detour patching, covert channels,...
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BitTorrent Protocol Abuses
July 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The BitTorrent protocol is now 7 years old. The protocol has become wildly successful in a very short period of time, but with this success comes growing pains. The protocol originally envisioned...
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How Economics and Information Security Affects Cyber Crime and What It Means in the Context of a Global Recession
June 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is widely accepted that malware and botnets are established predominately to conduct cyber crime. The purpose of this paper is to paint a broad overview of the link between information security...
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Rapid Enterprise Triaging (RETRI): How to Run a Compromised Network and Keep Your Data Safe
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Routine log analysis uncovers suspicious activity dating back several months, and active beaconing reveals a backdoor channel in an exploited piece of production software on network. Anti-Virus...
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Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The SSL and TLS protocols aim to provide secrecy, authenticity, and integrity safeguarding communication from both passive and active adversaries. SSL and TLS rely heavily on the x500 certificate...
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Your Mind: Legal Status, Rights and Securing Yourself
July 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One shed digital footprints every day. Using similar technologies to the ones that trackone, it is becoming easier to trace those footprints back tone. If one live in a city in which usage of...
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Automated Malware Similarity Analysis
July 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Malware analysis has evolved in both the sophistication of the samples analyzed and the tools of the trade. Unfortunately human analysis of samples is still very expensive and time consuming. As...
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Global Spying: Realistic Probabilities in Modern Signals Intelligence
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper present insight to the realistic possibilities of Internet mass surveillance. When talking about the threat of Internet surveillance, the common argument is that there is so much...
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Windows Vista Security Internals
February 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Windows Vista introduces some significant changes in its security architecture; there are also some major changes between Vista RTM (release-to-manufacturing; a Microsoft term for "Gold" code or...
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Taming the Beast : Assess Kerberos-Protected Networks
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to its universal support, to the fact that it is Microsoft's default and that it provides for a real SSO solution, Kerberos is a pervasive authentication protocol with a strong reputation of...
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Hijacking Mobile Data Connections
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The use of data connections on mobile phones keeps growing at a steady rate. New services are continuously deployed and mobile phones keep getting smarter. Its work shows how an attacker may be...
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Shuntaint: Emulation-Based Security Testing for Formal Verification
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes an emulated approach to collect traces of program states, in order to verify formally that these traces belong to the algorithm accepted by the provided graph for the Finite...
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When Lawyers Attack! - Dealing With the New Rules of Electronic Discovery
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The reasons for this ambiguity will become clear as it examine the nature of the common law system, as will the conclusion that these ambiguities have little chance of being cleared up any time...
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Satan Is on My Friends List: Attacking Social Networks
July 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Like most folks of a security bent, it spent a lot of time watching Web 2.0 with bemusement. Promiscuous sharing of information, client-side Javascript goop, blogging, mini-blogging,...
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Mobitex Security Issues
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Mobitex wireless networking standard was developed jointly by Ericsson and the Swedish national telephone company nearly 30 years ago at a time when wireless networking was in its infancy. It...
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Yes It Is Too Wi-Fi, and No Its Not Inherently Secure
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The focus of this paper are those 802.11 wireless LAN's that utilize FHSS for the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The purpose of this paper is to familiarize the reader with the mechanics of these FHSS based...
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Fun and Games With Mac OS X and iPhone Payloads
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mac OS X continues to spread among users, and with this increased market share comes more scrutinization of the security of the operating system. The topics of vulnerability analysis and exploit...
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Advanced MAC OS X Rootkits
July 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Mac OS X kernel (xnu) is a hybrid BSD and Mach kernel. While Unix-oriented rootkit techniques are pretty well known, Mach-based rootkit techniques have not been as thoroughly publicly...
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Mobile Application Security on Android
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Android has a unique security model, which focuses on putting the user in control of the device. Android devices however, don't all come from one place, the open nature of the platform allows for...
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Portable Document Format (PDF) Security Analysis and Malware Threats
February 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
Adobe Portable Document Format has become the most widespread and used document description format throughout the world. It is also a true programming language of its own, strongly dedicated to...
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Mobile Application Security on Android
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Android has a unique security model, which focuses on putting the user in control of the device. Android devices however, don't all come from one place, the open nature of the platform allows for...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
Intercepting GSM Traffic
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
This talk is about GSM security. The will explain the security, technology and protocols of a GSM network. The will further present a solution to build a GSM scanner for 900 USD. The second part...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
Advanced MAC OS X Rootkits
July 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Mac OS X kernel (xnu) is a hybrid BSD and Mach kernel. While Unix-oriented rootkit techniques are pretty well known, Mach-based rootkit techniques have not been as thoroughly publicly...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
Fun and Games With Mac OS X and iPhone Payloads
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mac OS X continues to spread among users, and with this increased market share comes more scrutinization of the security of the operating system. The topics of vulnerability analysis and exploit...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
Yes It Is Too Wi-Fi, and No Its Not Inherently Secure
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The focus of this paper are those 802.11 wireless LAN's that utilize FHSS for the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The purpose of this paper is to familiarize the reader with the mechanics of these FHSS based...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Mobitex Security Issues
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Mobitex wireless networking standard was developed jointly by Ericsson and the Swedish national telephone company nearly 30 years ago at a time when wireless networking was in its infancy. It...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
Satan Is on My Friends List: Attacking Social Networks
July 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Like most folks of a security bent, it spent a lot of time watching Web 2.0 with bemusement. Promiscuous sharing of information, client-side Javascript goop, blogging, mini-blogging,...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
When Lawyers Attack! - Dealing With the New Rules of Electronic Discovery
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The reasons for this ambiguity will become clear as it examine the nature of the common law system, as will the conclusion that these ambiguities have little chance of being cleared up any time...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
Shuntaint: Emulation-Based Security Testing for Formal Verification
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes an emulated approach to collect traces of program states, in order to verify formally that these traces belong to the algorithm accepted by the provided graph for the Finite...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
Hijacking Mobile Data Connections
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The use of data connections on mobile phones keeps growing at a steady rate. New services are continuously deployed and mobile phones keep getting smarter. Its work shows how an attacker may be...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Taming the Beast : Assess Kerberos-Protected Networks
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to its universal support, to the fact that it is Microsoft's default and that it provides for a real SSO solution, Kerberos is a pervasive authentication protocol with a strong reputation of...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Windows Vista Security Internals
February 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Windows Vista introduces some significant changes in its security architecture; there are also some major changes between Vista RTM (release-to-manufacturing; a Microsoft term for "Gold" code or...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Global Spying: Realistic Probabilities in Modern Signals Intelligence
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper present insight to the realistic possibilities of Internet mass surveillance. When talking about the threat of Internet surveillance, the common argument is that there is so much...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Automated Malware Similarity Analysis
July 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Malware analysis has evolved in both the sophistication of the samples analyzed and the tools of the trade. Unfortunately human analysis of samples is still very expensive and time consuming. As...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Your Mind: Legal Status, Rights and Securing Yourself
July 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One shed digital footprints every day. Using similar technologies to the ones that trackone, it is becoming easier to trace those footprints back tone. If one live in a city in which usage of...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The SSL and TLS protocols aim to provide secrecy, authenticity, and integrity safeguarding communication from both passive and active adversaries. SSL and TLS rely heavily on the x500 certificate...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Rapid Enterprise Triaging (RETRI): How to Run a Compromised Network and Keep Your Data Safe
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Routine log analysis uncovers suspicious activity dating back several months, and active beaconing reveals a backdoor channel in an exploited piece of production software on network. Anti-Virus...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
How Economics and Information Security Affects Cyber Crime and What It Means in the Context of a Global Recession
June 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is widely accepted that malware and botnets are established predominately to conduct cyber crime. The purpose of this paper is to paint a broad overview of the link between information security...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
BitTorrent Protocol Abuses
July 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The BitTorrent protocol is now 7 years old. The protocol has become wildly successful in a very short period of time, but with this success comes growing pains. The protocol originally envisioned...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Anti-Forensics: The Rootkit Connection
July 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Conventional rootkits tend to focus on defeating forensic live incident response and network monitoring using a variety of concealment strategies (e.g. hooking, detour patching, covert channels,...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Disclosing Private Information From Metadata, Hidden Info and Lost Data
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Documents contain metadata and hidden information that can be used to disclose private data and to fingerprint an organization and its network computers. This document shows what kinds of data can...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Sub-Prime PKI: Attacking Extended Validation SSL
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One of the attributes that the paper discusses is the type of SSL certificate presented by a web server when negotiating a secure connection. Modern web browsers support both Domain Validated (DV)...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
Portable Document Format (PDF) Security Analysis and Malware Threats
February 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
Adobe Portable Document Format has become the most widespread and used document description format throughout the world. It is also a true programming language of its own, strongly dedicated to...
Provided by Black Hat
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