Windows 10 egghunter (wow64) and more
Introduction Ok, I have a confession to make, I have always been somewhat intrigued by egghunters. That doesn’t mean that I like to use (or abuse) an egghunter just because I fancy what it does. In...
View ArticleWindows 10 x86/wow64 Userland heap
Introduction Hi all, Over the course of the past few weeks ago, I received a number of "emergency" calls from some relatives, asking me to look at their computer because "things were broken", "things...
View ArticleEncFSGui – GUI Wrapper around encfs for OSX
Introduction 3 weeks ago, I posted a rant about my frustration/concern related with crypto tools, more specifically the lack of tools to implement crypto-based protection for files on OSX, in a...
View ArticleCrypto in the box, stone age edition
Introduction First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! I hope 2016 will be a fantastic and healthy year, filled with fun, joy, energy, and lots of pleasant surprises. I remember when all of my data...
View ArticleHow to become a pentester
Intro I receive a lot of emails. (Please don’t make it worse, thanks!) Unfortunately I don’t have as much spare time as I used to, or would like to, so I often have no other choice than to redirect...
View ArticleAnalyzing heap objects with mona.py
Introduction Hi all, While preparing for my Advanced exploit dev course at Derbycon, I’ve been playing with heap allocation primitives in IE. One of the things that causes some frustration (or, at...
View ArticleCSO : Common Sense Operator/Operations
As the CSO/CISO/person responsible for Information Security, your job is to… well … do you even know? Does upper management know? "Our crappy CSO <this>…" and "Our stupid CSO <that>…"...
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Day 2 – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: GRX & A Spy Agency
Last year, Belgacom got hacked by an intelligence service (GCHQ?), Rob says. “What is so interesting about this hack, why did they hack into Belgacom, what would or could be the purpose of a similar...
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Day 2 – Exploring and Exploiting iOS Web Browsers
iOS Browsers & UIWebview iOS is very popular (according to StatCounter, it’s the 3rd most popular platform used). Mobile browsers take about 20% to 25% of the market share. iOS offers integration...
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Day 2 – Keynote 4: Hack It Forward
Good morning Amsterdam, good morning readers, welcome to the second day of the Hack In The Box conference. The speaker for the first keynote didn’t show up, so we’ll jump right into the next keynote....
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Interview with Katie Moussouris
Hi all, I had the pleasure to meet with Katie Moussouris after her keynote at Hack In The Box. After the announcement that she has left Microsoft and now serves as Chief Policy Offer (CPO) at...
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Day 1 – State of the ART: Exploring the New Android KitKat Runtime
Good afternoon and welcome back to Hack In the Box. I can’t think of anything better than a talk on ART, the new Android KitKat Runtime, to digest lunch :) Intro ART was introduced in Android 4.4 back...
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Day 1 – Harder, Better, Faster Fuzzer: Advances in BlackBox...
Vulnerability Hunting Active security testing, Fabien explains, is the process of generating input which travel in the application, hit a sink and violate a property. It applies to all kinds of...
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Day 1 – Keynote 2: Building a Strategic Defense Against the...
Kristin starts her keynote by explaining that she has been in the business about 22 years ago and used to be in public services. A long time ago, she married a husband who was in the military and ran...
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Day 1 – Keynote 1: Security at the End of the Universe
Good morning friends, welcome to Hack In The Box 2014, hosted at “De Beurs van Berlage” in the beautiful city of Amsterdam. This year’s edition starts with a keynote by Katie Moussouris, previous...
View ArticleHITB2014AMS – Hack In The Box / Haxpo 2014 Amsterdam
Dear friends, I’m getting ready for a short trip to Amsterdam, to attend the 5th Hack In The Box conference tomorrow … and I’m “hashtag” excited about it. HITB Haxpo and HITB2014AMS feature and amazing...
View ArticleHappy 5th Birthday Corelan Team
Introduction Corelan Team was founded in September of 2009. Over the last few years, the team has written and published numerous tutorials on exploit development. We have created a series of tools and...
View ArticleCorelan Team reply to false allegation made by Kaspersky
Hi, A few moments ago, I was informed about an article on www.securelist.com and the fact that Corelan Team was mentioned in that post. Apparently a researcher at Kaspersky Labs found a piece of text...
View ArticleMetasploit Meterpreter and NAT
Professional pentesters typically use a host that is connected directly to the internet, has a public IP address, and is not hindered by any firewalls or NAT devices to perform their audit. Hacking...
View ArticleA chain is only as strong as its weakest link – DNS Hijack Monitoring
It doesn’t really matter how much time your developers have spent writing secure code and how many layers of security you have implemented to protect your website from being hacked and defaced. Recent...
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