Keynoting 0xcon in Johannesburg this year, I had the immense privilege of talking and sharing ideas about something that is dear to my heart. That is, giving back more than you take. And by giving back I don’t mean *just* doing research or writing tools. Instead, giving back includes things like writing documentation or even just teaching someone else! In my talk, “your contributions, today” I reflected on a current…
The whole of information/cyber security is founded on the idea that we can defend ourselves into security. But in the history of competitive endeavours nobody has won by playing defence alone. We have this idea that we can wrap our users and systems in enough padding to protect them in a world where guns exist. We’ve leaned so hard into this idea that we’re on the floor and it’s time…
This post is a summary of the contents of my talk in Defcon 31 AppSec Village last August 2023, and part of what I will explain in Canada at the SecTor conference on the 24th of October 2023 at 4:00 PM. There are two (big) blocks in this post. Sorry for the length <(_ _)>: The first part is about the not so well-known CSP bypasses that I found during…
Phew! This year’s hacker summer camp is packed with presentations from several hackers across the globe at Orange Cyberdefense. I can’t possibly go into all of the many details, but hope to give a somewhat compressed view of the highlights! This year we have a total of 10 representations. Four of those are DEF CON 29 talks, where two are main stage talks, one a demo labs talk and one…
This is a summary of our BlackHat USA 2020 talk. On some of our engagements, Szymon and I found ourselves on various networks vulnerable to; insecure, misconfigured, and often overlooked networking protocols. These included dynamic routing protocols (referred to as DRP‘s) and first hop redundancy protocols (referred to as FHRP‘s). We decided to focus on these two classes of networking protocols to manipulate traffic flows and identify non-conventional ways of…