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was August 8-10, 2008 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino.
Speakers & Presentations
BackTrack Foo - From Bug to 0day
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Md Sohail Ahmad, JVR Murthy, Amit Vartak
Autoimmunity Disorder in Wireless LAN
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Time-Based Blind SQL Injection using heavy queries: A practical approach for MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle and MySQL databases and Marathon Tool
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Zack Anderson, RJ Ryan & Alessandro Chiesa
Cancelled due to federal court order which was later allowed to expire. See court documents listed at right.
The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFID's and Magstripes of Ticketing Systems
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Court Documents:
1-complaint.pdf
2-motionfortro.pdf
3-memorandum.pdf
4-declaration-sullivan.pdf
5-declaration-foster.pdf
6-declaration-kelley.pdf
7-declaration-mahony.pdf
8-corporatedisclosure.pdf
9-declaration-mahony2-exhibits.pdf
10-declaration-henderson-vulnerability.pdf
11-certificateofservice.pdf
12-motionfortro-order.pdf
13-noticeofappearance.pdf
14-johanson.pdf
15-no-scan.pdf
16-modifytro.pdf
17-mahony-declaration.pdf
8-modifytro-exhibits.pdf
19-certificate-of-service.pdf
20-originaltro-exhibits.pdf
21-motion-correct-not-mit.pdf
22-notice-of-appearance.pdf
23-response-to-modification-motion.pdf
24-hoffman-declarationandexhibits.pdf
25-eff-declaration.pdf
27-attorneyentrance.pdf
28-mbta-discovery-requests.pdf
29-attorneyentrance.pdf
30-mbta-oppositiontoTROreconsider.pdf
31-the-tech.pdf
33-motion-protectiveorder.pdf
34-reinsteinappearance.pdf
36-courtredactionpolicy.pdf
37-sullivandeclaration.pdf
38-mahonycertificate.pdf
39-discoveryextension.pdf
40-zack-motion-recon-tro.pdf
41-kessel-appearance.pdf
42-cohn-pro-hac-vice.pdf
43-hofman-pro-hac-vice.pdf
44-brown-appearance.pdf
45-kolodney-appearance.pdf
46-mbta-more-time.pdf
47-zack-reply-to-mbta-oppo.pdf
48-zack-declaration.pdf
49-mcsherry-declaration.pdf
MBTA-press-office-fact-sheet.pdf
Digital Security: A Risky Business
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VulnCatcher: Fun with Vtrace and Programmatic Debugging
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Pen-Testing is Dead, Long Live the Pen Test
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Owning the Users with The Middler
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They're Hacking Our Clients! Introducing Free Client-side Intrusion Prevention
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Luciano Bello & Maximiliano Bertacchini
Predictable RNG in the Vulnerable Debian OpenSSL Package, the What and the How
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When Lawyers Attack! Dealing with the New Rules of Electronic Discovery
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The Emergence (and Use) of Open Source Warfare
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What To Do When Your Data Winds Up Where It Shouldn't
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Generic, Decentralized, Unstoppable Anonymity: The Phantom Protocol
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Buying Time - What is your Data Worth?
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ModScan: A SCADA MODBUS Network Scanner
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Deciphering Captcha
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Bypassing Pre-boot Authentication Passwords
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Grendel-Scan: A new web application scanning tool
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D.J. Capelis : UPDATED :
Building a Real Session Layer
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Climbing Everest: An Insider's Look at one State's Voting Systems
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Could Googling Take Down a President, a Prime Minister, or an Average Citizen?
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Compromising Windows Based Internet Kiosks
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Thomas d'Otreppe de Bouvette & Rick Farina
Shifting the Focus of WiFi Security: Beyond cracking your neighbor's wep key
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Hacking Data Retention: Small Sister your digital privacy self defense
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Security and Anonymity Vulnerabilities in Tor: Past, Present, and Future
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Next Generation Collaborative Reversing with Ida Pro and CollabREate
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Brian K. Edwards & Silvio J. Flaim
Markets for Malware: A Structural Economic Approach
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Nathan Evans & Christian Grothoff
de-Tor-iorate Anonymity
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Identification Card Security: Past, Present, Future
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Ben Feinstein : UPDATED :
Snort Plug-in Development: Teaching an Old Pig New Tricks
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Ben Feinstein : UPDATED :
The Wide World of WAFs
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Kevin Figueroa, Marco Figueroa & Anthony L. Williams
VLANs Layer 2 Attacks: Their Relevance and their Kryptonite
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Is That a Unique Credential in Your Pocket or Are You Just Pleased to See Me?
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Stefan Frei, Thomas Duebendorfer, Gunter Ollmann & Martin May
Exploiting A Hundred-Million Hosts Before Brunch
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Journey to the Center of the HP28
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Making the DEF CON 16 Badge
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Nail the Coffin Shut, NTLM is Dead
Satan is on my Friends list: Attacking Social Networks
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Advanced Software Armoring and Polymorphic Kung Fu
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Playing with Web Application Firewalls
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War Ballooning-Kismet Wireless "Eye in the Sky"
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Under the iHood
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Ham For Hackers- Take Back the Airwaves
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Stealing The Internet - A Routed, Wide-area, Man in the Middle Attack
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Demonstration of Hardware Trojans
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Kolisar : UPDATED :
WhiteSpace: A Different Approach to JavaScript Obfuscation
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Flux on: EAS (Emergency Alert System)
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Career Mythbusters: Separating Fact from Fiction in your Information Security Career
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Developments in Cisco IOS Forensics
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Malware RCE: Debuggers and Decryptor Development
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Fear, Uncertainty and the Digital Armageddon
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Anthony Martinez & Thomas Bowen
Toasterkit, a Modular NetBSD Rootkit
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Bringing *****y Back: Breaking in with Style
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Forensics is ONLY for Private Investigators
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Solid State Drives Destroy Forensic & Data Recovery Jobs: Animated!
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Nelson Murilo & Luiz 'effffn' Eduardo
Beholder: New Wifi Monitor Tool
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Good Viruses. Evaluating the Risks
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Ne0nRa1n & Joe "Kingpin" Grand : UPDATED :
Brain Games: Make your own Biofeedback Video Game
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Jan Newger : UPDATED :
Anti-RE Techniques in DRM Code
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VoIPER: Smashing the VoIP Stack While You Sleep
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The World of Pager Sniffing/Interception: More Activity Than One May Suspect
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Christer Öberg, Claes Nyberg & James Tusini
Hacking OpenVMS
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365-Day: Active Https Cookie Hijacking
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Phreakmonkey & mutantMandias : UPDATED :
Urban Exploration - A Hacker's View
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Malware Detection through Network Flow Analysis
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The true story of the Radioactive Boyscout: The first nuclear hacker and how his work relates to Homeland Security's model of the dirty bomb
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How Can I Pwn Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
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The Big Picture: Digital Cinema Technology and Security
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New Tool for SQL Injection with DNS Exfiltration
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Advanced Physical Attacks: Going Beyond Social Engineering and Dumpster Diving
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Ferdinand Schober : UPDATED :
Gaming - The Next Overlooked Security Hole
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Making a Text Adventure Documentary
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Blake Self, DevDelay & Bitemytaco : UPDATED :
Free Anonymous Internet Using Modified Cable Modems
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Teo Sze Siong & Hirosh Joseph : UPDATED :
Let's Sink the Phishermen's Boat!
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CAPTCHAs: Are they really hopeless? (Yes)
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Alex Stamos, David Thiel & Justine Osborne
Living in the RIA World
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Tom "strace" Stracener & Robert "Rsnake" Hansen
Xploiting Google Gadgets: Gmalware and Beyond
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Inducing Momentary Faults Within Secure Smartcards / Microcontrollers
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Marc Weber Tobias & Matt Fiddler
Open in 30 Seconds: Cracking One of the Most Secure Locks in America
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Hijacking the Outdoor Digital Billboard Network
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How to make Friends & Influence Lock Manufacturers
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Evade IDS/IPS Systems using Geospatial Threat Detection
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Keeping Secret Secrets Secret and Sharing Secret Secrets Secretly
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Compliance: The Enterprise Vulnerability Roadmap
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Password Cracking on a Budget
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David Weston & Tiller Beauchamp
RE:Trace: The Reverse Engineer's Unexpected Swiss Army Knife
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Web Privacy and Flash Local Shared Objects
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New Ideas for Old Practices - Port-Scanning Improved
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The Death Envelope: A Medieval Solution to a 21st Century Problem
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Michael J. Assante, Jerry Dixon, Tom Kellermann & Marcus Sachs
Panel: Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency
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David Mortman, Rich Mogull, Chris Hoff, Robert "RSnake" Hansen, Robert Graham & David Maynor
Panel: All Your Sploits (and Servers) Are Belong To Us
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David Kennedy, Ken Stasiak, Scott White, John Melvin & Andrew Weidenhamer
Panel: Black vs. White: The Complete Life Cycle of a Real World Breach
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Kevin Bankston, Eva Galperin, Jennifer Granick, Marcia Hofmann, Corynne McSherry & Kurt Opsahl
Panel: Ask EFF: The Year in Digital Civil Liberties Panel
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Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon Callas, Alexei Czeskis, Dan Halperin, Karl Koscher & Michael Piatek
Panel: Hacking in the Name of Science
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DAVIX Visualization Workshop
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