Behind the Firewall – episode 013: CanSecWest 2011
CanSecWest is in it’s 12th year now. It started with the small, highly technical computer security conference in Vancouver and has since expanded to include a PacSec in Asia and EUSecWest in Europe, a 3 day dojo of training preceeding the conference, and for the last 4 years an event which has eclipsed the con itself – pwn2own.
This year the talks were mostly focused on applications and bug hunting as might be expected along side the pwn2own competition. As for pwn2own itself, some prizes were won and some not. Charlie Miller took away an iPhone 4 this year via a mobile Safari exploit. Stephen Fewer won a laptop by combining three different exploits to pwn IE8 on Windows 7-SP1. The VUPEN team walked off with an iBook for popping OS X through Safari. And Vincenzo Iozzo from Zynamics won big with the RIM’s BlackBerry Torch 9800. Of course there ARE some odd rules and one of the favorites to take out some of the prizes left “standing” didn’t show. It’s a jungle out there for Apple users but that shouldn’t leave Android, Chrome or Windows Phone 7 feeling invulnerable. YOUR bugs will live a little longer.
HNN was there in Vancouver, BC for the action. We hope you enjoy the sights and sounds of CanSecWest, 2011.
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Posted: March 19th, 2011
at 6:00am by tan
Tagged with Aaron Portnoy, Adam Cecchetti, After Ten Years Of Trying, Android, ANSSI, Black Box Auditing Adobe Shockwave, BlackBerry Torch 9800, Brad Woodberg, bugs, CanSecWest, Chaouki Bekrar, Charlie Miller, Chrome, Dan Kaminski, Doxpara & Deja Vu Security, Dragos, exploit, iBook, IE8, iPhone 4, Juniper, Logan Brown, Loic Duflot, Mike Eddington, mobile Safari, Network Application Firewalls vs. Contemporary Threats, OS X, Peter Vreugdenhil, Pwn2Own, RIM, Runtime Firmware Integrity Verification: What Can Now Be Achieved, Safari, Showing How Security Has (And Hasn't) Improved, Stephen Fewer, Tipping Point, Tipping Point / H.P. Zero Day Initiative, Vancouver, Vincenzo Iozzo, VUPEN, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Phone 7, Yves-Alexis Perez, ZDI, Zynamics
Categories: Behind the Firewall,podcasts
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Speakers
Opening – Dragos, CanSecWest
Network Application Firewalls vs. Contemporary Threats – Brad Woodberg, Juniper
Showing How Security Has (And Hasn’t) Improved, After Ten Years Of Trying – Dan Kaminski, Adam Cecchetti and Mike Eddington, Doxpara & Deja Vu Security
Black Box Auditing Adobe Shockwave – Aaron Portnoy, Logan Brown, Tipping Point / H.P. Zero Day Initiative
Runtime Firmware Integrity Verification: What Can Now Be Achieved – Yves-Alexis Perez and Loic Duflot, ANSSI
Tipping Point’s ZDI pwn2own Contest
Stephen Fewer – IE8/Windows 7SP1 Winner
Peter Vreugdenhil – ZDI Judge
Aaron Portnoy – ZDI Host
Charlie Miller – Safari Mobile/iPhone 4 Winner
Chaouki Bekrar (VUPEN) – Apple Safari/OS X/Macbook Winner
music by Martyn Mix via DubstepTunez
http://www.youtube.com/user/DubstepTunez
tan
19 Mar 11 at 6:01 am