Recently the OSVDB Blog had an interesting article regarding vulnerability duplication via the “hazard of 0day” wherein a vulnerability being exploited in the wild was mistaken for a new vulnerability when in fact it was not. This caused many of the vulnerability database vendors to issue new IDs, send out threat warnings, bring in the […]
While working for TippingPoint’s DVLabs, I was fortunate enough to not be held to any kind of regular work schedule. Working in an almost pure research role, without the requirement of regularly interfacing with customers or even the rest of the DVLabs group, I had the opportunity to explore something that I’ve never really had […]
Since last Tuesday (Microsoft Patch Tuesday), I’ve taken a break from coding Application Protocol Simulators (the hot-button item at BreakingPoint right now) and worked on the Security side of the product. I’ve spent almost exactly one week working on a Strike-set for the ms08-033 AVI/MJPG vulnerability. The Strike-set includes 8 Strikes all which generate dynamic, […]
CSI-SX is the new branding for the CSI NetSec conference, which is co-located with Interop Las Vegas, and is essentially the security-focused portion of the overall conference. As with the annual CSI conference, this conference targets a different demographic than I’m used to speaking for as the attendance is usually comprised of very large enterprise […]
The ToorCon organization puts on some of the best conferences in my opinion, and this last weekend was version 1.0 of their Seattle conference (beta was last year, which I also attended). Friday night was entirely 5-minute lightning talks and then Saturday was entirely 20-minute turbo talks. Sunday was workshops, which unfortunately I could not […]
I have long been fascinated with self-given names, and the effect they have on the entity being named. Having grown up with my roots firmly planted in the computer security underground, I regularly met and dealt with people identified only by their self-given handles (pseudonyms). I soon began to notice that many of these people […]
Today, my research paper entitled “Context-keyed Payload Encoding” was published in Uninformed Journal vol. 9. If you’re into cutting-edge exploitation technology, you should check it out. This is the research I presented at ToorCon 9 last October.
Having recently played most of the way through Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, I came across an interesting security mechanism in the game that I haven’t really seen paralleled in the real world…
My second Microsoft Patch Tuesday at the new employer was fairly uneventful. This Tuesday there was only one patch rated critical, MS07-061, and as it turns out it was the bug that I had already worked on last week. Essentially all I had to do was update my strikes from last week with the new […]
CSI 2007 was the first time I’ve ever attended a CSI conference. I was actually a CSI member way back in the day when I was running my own consulting firm and needed as many business development avenues to explore as possible, but after closing my consultancy and going back to work for The Man(tm) […]