Security (102)

On June 14, 2011 HD Moore announced the Metasploit Bounty contest, offering a cash incentive for specific vulnerabilities to be submitted as modules in the Metasploit Framework. Titled "30 exploits, $5000 in 5 weeks", a post on the Rapid7 blog lists the 30 "bounties" selected by the MSF team, waiting for someone to claim and submit a working exploit module. Read more

Watobo author Andy Schmidt made 2 great videos about installing Watobo on Windows and on BackTrack 5. I created a rather simple and short shell script to install Watobo on BT5. Nothing new, nothing sensational, just to alleviate the installation process. Read more

This document describes the various commands, functionality and behaviour of mona.py. Released on june 16, this pycommand for Immunity Debugger replaces pvefindaddr, solving performance issues and offering numerous new features. pvefindaddr will still be available for download until all of its functionality has been ported over to mona. Read more

Over the last few weeks, there has been some commotion about a universal DEP/ASLR bypass routine using ROP gadgets from msvcr71.dll (written by Immunity Inc) and the fact that it might have been copied into an exploit submitted to Metasploit as part of the Metasploit bounty. I'm not going to make any statements about this, but the ROP routine itself looks pretty slick. Read more

FINALLY ! After spending almost 6 months of designing, developing and testing, and after 'surviving' 2 presentations (at AthCon and Hack In Paris), I am extremely excited and proud to present, on behalf of the entire Corelan Team, the general availability of mona.py. With this announcement, we also declare pvefindaddr officially dead from this point forward. (This doesn't mean pvefindaddr is now entirely worthless, because not all functions have been ported into mona yet, but we won't be releasing any updates to pvefindaddr anymore and the entire project page/download page will eventually disappear) Read more

Today we will have a look at a CTF binary from HITB pre qualifications CTF 2011. This is an interesting binary to reverse because Vectored Exception Handling (VEH) was used in the challenge... Read more

March 21th I was in Paris for the annual Honeynet Workshop. For the first time this year there was a conference day accessible to the general public. Moreover, I didn't have to pay the registration fee since I successfully completed one of the Honeynet Forensics challenges. The day was split in 4 sessions and had talks covering the Honeynet projects, malware, and ethical and legal considerations of tracking botnets and eventual take-downs. Read more

When conducting a pen-test, the process typically starts with the reconnaissance phase, the process of gathering information about your target(s) system, organization or person. Today, we want to present a tool that can be added to your reconnaissance toolkit. Read more

Having missed the IOActive party last night, I woke up fresh and sharp and ready for some kick-ass debugger stuff so I decided to start my second day at BlackHat Europe 2011 with attending the Cisco IOS fuzzing & debugging talk. Read more

After having breakfast, chatting with ping and hanging out with @kokanin, @xme and @wimremes, it was time to start attending the various talks. So, as promised in yesterdays preview, what follows is the report of my first day at Black Hat Europe 2011. Read more