Dominic White
SensePost at BlackHat & Defcon 2017
July is our favourite time of year, when thousands descend into Las Vegas for Blackhat/Defcon, or more commonly referred to as ‘Hacker Summer Camp’. This year, our camp councillors have been working hard to bring you all our latest creations. We’re running our usual training at BlackHat, and as usual have been working hard to build new courses and update others. Here’s a list: BLACK OPS HACKING FOR PENTESTERS –…
BSides Cape Town Secret Squirrel Challenge Write-Up
Last weekend was the BSides Cape Town conference, currently ZA’s only hacker con. It’s a cool little con with big dreams that get a little closer each time. This year was a lot a fun and well put together, congrats to all of the speakers organisers and volunteers. SP gave some talks; Charl spoke about where we’re headed in a talk entitled Love Triangles in CyberSpace; a tale about trust in 5…
Snoopy with Mana
In 2011 Glenn and Daniel released Snoopy, a set of tools for tracking and visualising wireless client activity. However, the Snoopy project is no longer maintained. This blog entry is about how I got Snoopy-like functionality built into Mana. Snoopy’s core functionality was to observe probe requests for remembered networks from wireless clients, although it ended up doing much more. The problem tools like Snoopy face, is that they can’t monitor…
Universal Serial aBUSe
Last Saturday, at Defcon 24, we gave a talk entitled “Universal Serial aBUSe: Remote Physical Access Attacks” about some research we had performed into USB attacks. The talk was part of a research theme we’ve been pursuing related to hardware bypasses of software security. We decided to look into these sorts of attacks after noting their use in real world attacks. For example, you have “Apex predators” such as the…
SensePost at Blackhat & Defcon 2016
The annual Hacker Summer Camp is nearly upon us, everyone at SensePost is getting ready. This is a brief overview of what we’ll be doing. The tl;dr is: BlackHat Training, BlackHat Arsenal x2, Defcon talk & Stickers :) We’re back at BlackHat for our 15th year of training with a selection of courses ranging from introductory courses for beginners through to hardcore courses for experts. Basic Tools & Techniques for Hackers…
Handling Randomised MAC Addresses in MANA
mana development has been chugging along nicely. However, the OffSec crew politely asked us to move mana to proper releases a while back, which we’ve just done. This is about one of the many changes pushed in our first new set of releases since October 2014; 1.3.1-Fixy McFixface. There’s a longer summary of what’s new available at the previous release page 1.3-WPE & ACLs with the WPE functionality extensions from and inspired…
Too Easy – Adding Root CA’s to iOS Devices
With the recent buzz around the iMessage crypto bug from the John’s Hopkins team, several people pointed out that you would need a root CA to make it work. While getting access to the private key for a global root CA is probably hard, getting a device to trust a malicious root CA is sometimes phrased as difficult to do, but really isn’t. (There’s a brief technical note about this in…
Improvements in Rogue AP attacks – MANA 1/2
At Defcon 22 we presented several improvements in wifi rogue access point attacks. We entitled the talk “Manna from heaven” and released the MANA toolkit. I’ll be doing two blog entries. The first will describe the improvements made at a wifi layer, and the second will cover the network credential interception stuff. If you just want the goodies, you can get them at the end of this entry for the…
Offence oriented defence
We recently gave a talk at the ITWeb Security Summit entitled “Offense Oriented Defence”. The talk was targeted at defenders and auditors, rather then hackers (the con is oriented that way), although it’s odd that I feel the need to apologise for that ;) The talks primary point, was that by understanding how attackers attack, more innovative defences can be imagined. The corollary was that common defences, in the form…
Rogue Access Points, a how-to
In preparation for our wireless training course at BlackHat Vegas in a few weeks, I spent some time updating the content on rogue/spoofed access points. What we mean by this are access points under your control, that you attempt to trick a user into connecting to, rather than the “unauthorised access points” Bob in Marketing bought and plugged into your internal network for his team to use. I’ll discuss how…