Charl Van Der Walt
On hacking and politics
I meant to blog this whilst I was still in Vegas, but only got around to it now. Its arb, but worth a bit of thinking… Kenneth Geers’ talk titled ‘Greetz from Room 101’ was on which countries have the Top Ten most Orwellian computer networks. In his precis he asks “Could a cyber attack lead to a real-life government overthrow?” I find these kinds of discussions really interesting, because…
SensePost Training at Black Hat Las Vegas
The Black Hat Briefings is arguably the most significant technical security conference in the world. It takes every year in Las Vegas and also includes a series of diverse technical training courses. For the sixth time this year SensePost will be presenting a series of courses from our ‘Hacking By Numbers’ range at the briefings. There are a number of courses catered for most levels of technical experience, starting with…
On vulnerability, root cause, white-listing and compliance
Many years ago, when we first released ‘Setiri’ one of the controls that we preached was website white-listing. As talk-back trojans would connect back to arbitrary web servers on the Internet, we argued that companies should create shortlists of the sites employees are allowed to visit. This, we argued, was much more feasible than trying to identify and block known ‘bad’ sites. Of course, there are a number of other…
CSI Corporate Threat Modeling Talk
Whew. After much last-minute war with PPT C# and ORM our slides and Beta 1.0 of our tool are available on our research site. I think the slides are pretty neat, and I’m *very* excited about the tool, but unfortunately we didn’t get as far with the latter as we’d hoped to. Still, it illustrates the concept pretty nicely and its built pretty solid (thanks James) so it should grow…
Threat Modelling Talk at CSI Phoenix
After a six hour delay due to technical problems *before* my journey even started I’m finally on the plane and waiting for take off. Tag an additional five hour delay due to a missed connection in New York and this quickly become a very, very long trip. Perhaps my longest ever. Ah well, the price we pay for living at the end of the world, I guess. I’m on my…
Hotel Hacking
Check out http://hongkong.langhamplacehotels.com/accom/technology.htm in Hong Kong. They provide Cisco IP phones in the rooms, but with a difference. According to an article I read in TIME the hotel will collect your most frequently dialled numbers and load them onto the touchscreen phone when you return for your next visit. Not only that, they also program the phone to show stock quotes or news and weather from your home town, AND…
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