BlackHatEU2013 – Day 1 – To dock or not to dock
Time flies ! After hanging out with @repmovsb and @botherder, it’s time for the last talk of the day. In the “To dock or not to dock, that is the question” talk, Andy Davis, research director at NCC Group shares his research around using laptop docking stations as hardware-based attack platforms. Why docking stations as […]
BlackHatEU2013 – Day1 – Hardening Windows 8 Apps for the Windows Store
The first talk after having lunch at BlackHat Europe 2013, title “Hardening Windows 8 Apps for the Windows Store” is delivered by Bill Sempf (@sempf). Usually, the first slot after lunch is not really a gift to speakers as attendees tend to be busy digesting lunch at that time. Perhaps the absence of slides during the […]
BlackHatEU2013 – Day1 – Hacking Appliances
The second talk I’m attending today is presented by Ben Williams, who’s going to talk about “Ironic exploitation of security products”. He explains that, as a pentester/researcher for NCC Group, he gets the chance to do fun pentests and break a lot of stuff. In the past year, he was able to work on auditing […]
BlackHatEU2013 – Day1 – Practical Attacks against MDM solutions
Good morning everyone, Welcome to BlackHat Europe 2013 ! As announced in my post a couple of days ago, I’ll try to post short write-ups about some of the talks right after the presentation has finished. All you have to do is keep an eye on my Twitter feed to see when a new post is […]
Black Hat Europe 2013 – Preview
Hola dear friends, There’s only a few days left until Black Hat Europe 2013 opens its doors in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Just like past years, I’ll be covering some of the briefings (semi) live on www.corelan.be. I’ve you’re a speaker – I’ll be the dude in the front row, typing […]
Root Cause Analysis – Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
Introduction For the past year or so I’ve spent a significant amount of time fuzzing various applications with the hopes of identifying exploitable crashes. Early on in my research I quickly realized that building fuzzers and generating large quantities of crashes, even for heavily targeted applications, was easy. However, determining the exploitability of these crashes, […]
DEPS – Precise Heap Spray on Firefox and IE10
Introduction Last week, while doing my bi-weekly courseware review and update, I discovered that my heap spray script for Firefox 9 no longer works on recent versions. Looking back at the type of tricks I had to use to make a precise spray work under Firefox 9 and IE 9, and realizing that these changes […]
Heap Layout Visualization with mona.py and WinDBG
Introduction Time flies. Almost 3 weeks have passed since we announced the ability to run mona.py under WinDBG. A lot of work has been done on mona.py in the meantime. We improved stability and performance, updated to pykd.pyd 0.2.0.14 and ported a few additional immlib methods to windbglib. I figured this would be a good […]
Jingle BOFs, Jingle ROPs, Sploiting all the things… with Mona v2 !!
Ho Ho Ho friends, It has been a while since we posted something on the Corelan Team blog, I guess we all have been busy doing … stuff and things, here and there. Nevertheless, as the year is close to filling up 100%, it’s probably a good time to start thinking about finding some convincing […]
Happy New Year – here’s my special gift to you, corelanc0d3r
I’m not going to spend a lot of words on this. Facts speak for themselves. A short while ago, I discovered this: http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3031925 (you need to register to get access to the thread). Screenshot : idle-hands profile : Reputation I registered a useraccount “corelanc0d3r” and used the “Report” button, but for some reason my user […]
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