Binary Instrumentation for Hackers

I've been planning to write something about the "Binary Instrumentation for Hackers" presentation I gave at the Israeli Defcon user group (DC9723) on 26 April right after the presentation but I kinda got sidetracked (which I will try to avoid from now on). At first I waited for the video to be online but right now I don't know if and when it will be online and later I got too busy with some work . Anyways, my slides are available HERE and if the video will be uploaded it will be HERE (the slides are English but the presentation was given in Hebrew). I'd like to thank DC9723 organizers for having me, I hope to come back again someday.

Also, the slides from my lightning talk at Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 are up with the other conference slides HERE.

I have (today) sent submissions of workshops and talks on the subject of binary instrumentation to BlackHat USA & Defcon 19 (check out the Defcon site, it just opened), hopefully I'll get a chance to talk about some awesome stuff with the great people in attending these cons.

Oh, and if anyone happens to be in Amsterdam next week (15-21) for HITB, I'm there on business. I won't attend HITB but would love to meet anybody that actually reads my blog for a beer in the evening.

While we're at it, If you are in HITB don't miss Itzik's & Zuk's presentations - I know they have some kwel stuff planned. I also recommend going to see whatever Travis Goodspeed & Claudio Crisocone present - I haven't talked with them about the details of their presentations but they usually do great stuff. 

(yeah, in case it was unclear I'm disappointed to be in  Amsterdam at the same time HITB happens and not attend HITB).

-- Gal

Instrumentation, Hackito Ergo Sum and this week in the news

Well, it's been a week so I guess it's time to post something.

I haven't had a lot of time this week to do stuff I can write about in this blog because I was really busy @ work. In and of itself that is cool becuase being busy at work usually means I'm doing some cool hacking but unfortunately I can't talk about my work here.

Binary Instrumentation for Hackers
In the limited free time I had I have been working on a presentation called "Binary instrumentation for hackers", I hope to present it at DC9723 April meeting, anybody coming? This presentation will probably become the base to a workshop proposal I plan on submitting to BlackHat USA 2011.
I also plan to post some material on binary instrumentation here so stay tuned. If you use instrumentation for hacking / security purposes please leave a comment - I'm really interested to know what others do.

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011
I'm going to attend HES 2011 (Apr 7-9). If you are going there let me know and I'll buy you a beer. This is a limited time offer to celebrate the start of this blog and I can afford about 10 beers so FCFS.
If you are not there, stay tuned: the schedule (PDF) looks awesome and I will try to post write-ups about the talks right here.

News stuff:
Well, I can talk about the RSA APT and whether or not it is an APT or about LizaMoon or the new SCADA attacks from GLEG (and also Tenable and VUPEN) and even about the funny false alarm about Samsung installing keyloggers on their laptops but I don't have the patience so follow the links if you didn't already hear about all this stuff.
I also saw an interesting post about CRAP in Assaf Nativ's Blog (home automation and fw/hw hacking). 

-- Gal

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