BlackHat USA 2010
BlackHat is going to be a busy one for me this year because I am still trying to quit my nasty over-committing habit. But hopefully, I should have something that interests just about everybody.
If you love/hate Macs and like hacking, you should check out the Mac Hacking Class training that I am giving with Vincenzo Iozzo. We’ll be covering a lot of material including discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities, Mac OS X and Mach internals, and writing exploit payloads.
If Windows is more your style, you should check out my presentation, Return-Oriented Exploitation. I’ll be talking about using a variety of return-oriented techniques to bypass DEP/NX and ASLR on modern Windows operating systems, using my exploit for the “Operation Aurora” Internet Explorer vulnerability as an example and live demo. My presentation will be on Thursday at 1:45pm in the Exploitation Track (Augustus 1-2).
Finally, if you don’t really care about Macs or Windows, but do love security vulnerabilities and/or the infosec drama circus (b/c who really cares about the actual work we do?), you should check out the Pwnie Awards. For the 4th year in a row, Alex Sotirov and I have organized the Pwnie Awards to celebrate the achievements and failures of the information security industry. Along with our fellow esteemed judges (Dave Aitel, Mark Dowd, Halvar Flake, Dave Goldsmith, and HD Moore), we will be hosting the Pwnie Awards at 6:00pm on Wednesday, July 28th or July 29th (there seems to be some confusion on exactly which day it’ll be on and where currently). Follow the Pwnie Awards on Twitter for late-breaking updates.
