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 HITB2012AMS Day 2 - Ghost in the Allocator

Ghost in the Allocator - Abusing the Windows 7 / 8 Low Fragmentation Heap After introducing himself, Steven Seeley, Senior Penetration Tester and …

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 HITB2012AMS Day 2 - Attacking XML Processing

Attacking XML Processing Dressed in a classy Corelan Team T-Shirt, Nicolas Grégoire kicks off his presentation by introducing himself. Nicolas has …

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 HITB2012AMS Day 2 - Taint Analysis

Automatically Searching for Vulnerabilities: How to use Taint Analysis to find Security Flaws (by Alex Bazhanyuk (not present) and Nikita Tarakanov,…

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 HITB2012AMS Day 2 - PostScript - Danger Ahead

Good morning everyone, welcome back at Hack In The Box 2012 Amsterdam ! Before looking at the first talk that I attended today, I would like to …

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 HITB2012AMS Day 1 - Window Shopping

Window Shopping: Browser Bugs Hunting in 2012 In the last talk of Day 1, Roberto Suggi Liverani and Scott Bell (not present during the …

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Corelan Research is a long-running cybersecurity research project focused on exploit development, vulnerability research and Windows internals.   Since 2009, we have published deep technical tutorials covering topics such as stack-based exploitation, heap exploitation, shellcoding, reverse engineering and debugging. 
These tutorials have helped thousands of security researchers, penetration testers, exploit developers and exploit dev trainers learn how modern memory corruption vulnerabilities work.