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Black Hat Briefings USA 08 Schedule

August 6 – 7, 2008

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Day One • August 6, 2008

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08:00 to 08:50 Regisration and Continental Breakfast: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Convention Floor - sponsored by Cisco Logo
08:50 to 09:00 Introduction by Black Hat Founder and Director, Jeff Moss
09:00 to 09:50 Keynote Ian Angell Professor of Information Systems, London School of Economics - "Complexity in Computer Security - a Risky Business"
09:50 to 10:00 Break

Root Kits
Roman Ballroom
0-Day
Palace 1
App Sec 1.0/2.0
Augustus 3&4
Bots & Malware
Palace 3
Deep Knowledge
Florentine 1-4
The Network
Augustus 5&6
Over The Air
Augustus 1&2
Reverse Engineering
Palace 2

10:00 to 11:00


Deeper Door:
Exploiting the NIC
Chipset

Sherri Sparks,
Shawn Embleton
Pointers and
Handles

Alex Ionescu
AppSec A-Z
Jared DeMott
Bad Sushi:
Beating Phishers
at Their Own Game

Nitesh Dhanjani,
Billy K Rios
When Lawyers
Attack:
Dealing With the
New Rules of
Electronic Discovery

John Benson
Nmap: Scanning
the Internet

Fyodor Vaskovich
Mobitex Network
Security

olle B
Next Generation
Collaborative Reversing
with Ida Pro and
CollabREate

Chris Eagle
Tim Vidas

11:00 to 11:15


Coffee Service: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Convention Floor - sponsored by Iomega Logo

11:15 to 12:30


A New Breed
of Rootkit:
The System Management
Mode (SMM) Rootkit
Shawn Embleton,
Sherri Sparks
Attacking the
Vista Heap

Ben Hawkes
AppSec A-Z
Jared DeMott
Jinx - Malware 2.0
Itzik Kotler,
Jonathan Rom
When Lawyers
Attack:
Dealing With the
New Rules of
Electronic Discovery

John Benson
Leveraging the Edge:
Abusing SSL VPNs

Mike Zusman
Highway to Hell:
Hacking Toll Systems

Nate Lawson
Decompilers and Beyond
Ilfak Guilfanov

12:30 to 13:45


Lunch: Pavillion at Caesars - sponsored by Symantec Logo

13:45 to 15:00


Insane Detection of
Insane Rootkits

Yuriy Bulygin
Cisco IOS
Shellcodes/
Backdoors

Gyan Chawdhary
Varun Uppal
Client-side Security
Petko D. Petkov
Protocols and Encryption of the
Storm Botnet

Joe Stewart
Iron Chef:
Fuzzing Challenge

Jacob West
Charlie Miller
Geoff Morrison
Jacob Honoroff
Sean Fay
Brian Chess
The Four Horsemen
of the Virtualization Security Apocalypse

Christofer Hoff
Software Radio
and the Future of Wireless Security

Michael Ossmann
Temporal Reverse Engineering
Danny Quist
Colin Ames

15:15 to 16:30


Viral Infections
on Cisco IOS

Sebastian Muniz
Return-Oriented
Programming:
Exploits Without
Code Injection

Hovav Shacham
Living in the RIA
World

Alex Stamos
David Thiel
Justine Osborne
Xploiting Google Gadgets:
Gmalware
and Beyond

Tom Stracener
Iron Chef:
Fuzzing Challenge

Jacob West
Charlie Miller
Geoff Morrison
Jacob Honoroff
Sean Fay
Brian Chess
Active 802.11 Fingerpinting
Sergey Bratus
Daniel Peebles
Cory Cornelius
Axel Hansen
Bluetooth v2.1
- a New Security Infrastructure
and New
Vulnerabilities

Andrew Lindell
RE:Trace - Applied Reverse Engineering on OS X
Tiller Beauchamp
David Weston
 

16:30 to 16:45


Coffee Service: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Promenade - sponsored by VMWarelogo

16:45 to 18:00


iRK - Crafting OS X Kernel Rootkits
Jesse D'Aguanno
Reverse DNS
Tunneling Shellcode

Ty Miller
FLEX, AMF 3 and BlazeDS: An Assessment
Jacob Carlson
Kevin Stadmeyer
Xploiting Google Gadgets:
Gmalware
and Beyond

Tom Stracener
MetaPost
Explanation

Val Smith
Malware Detection Through Network
Flow Analysis

Bruce Potter
New Classes of Security and Privacy Vulnerabilities for Implantable Wireless Medical Devices
Tadayoshi Kohno
Kevin Fu
Alternative Medicine: The Malware Analyst's Blue Pill
Paul Royal

Day Two • August 7, 2008

Up to Day 1
08:00 to 08:50 Regisration and Continental Breakfast: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Convention Floor - sponsored by Nokia Logo
08:50 to 09:00 Introduction by Black Hat Founder and Director, Jeff Moss
09:00 to 09:50 Keynote Rod Beckström, Director of the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) - "TBD"
09:50 to 10:00 Break

0-Day Defense
Roman Ballroom
App Sec 1.0/2.0
Augustus 3&4
Deep Knowledge
Florentine 1&4
Forensics
Augustus 5&6
Hardware
Palace 1
Web 2.0
Augustus 1&2
Virtualization
Palace 3

10:00 to 11:00


No More 0-Days
(or Code-Based
Intrusion Detection by Korset)

Ohad Ben-Cohen
Encoded, Layered
and Transcoded Syntax Attacks: Threading the Needle Past Web Application Security

Arian Evans
Passive and Active Leakage of Secret Data from Non-Networked Computer
Eric Filiol
Developments in
Cisco IOS Forensics

Felix Lindner
ePassports Reloaded
Jeroen van Beek
Satan is on
My Friends List:
Attacking Social
Networks

Shawn Moyer
Nathan Hamiel
Taking the Hype Out of Hypervisor
Tal Garfinkel

11:00 to 11:15


Coffee Service: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Convention Floor - sponsored by Google Logo

11:15 to 12:30


No More Signatures: Defending Web Applications from 0-Day Attacks with ModProfiler UsingTraffic Profiling
Ivan Ristic,
Ofar Shezaf
Circumventing
Automated JavaScript Analysis Tools

Billy Hoffman
Passive and Active Leakage of Secret Data from Non-Networked Computer
Eric Filiol
Visual Forensic
Analysis and Reverse
Engineering of
Binary Data

Greg Conti
Erik Dean
SmartCard APDU
Analysis

Ivan Buetler
Threats to the 2008 Presidential Election
(and more)

Oliver Friedrichs
Suberverting the Xen Hypervisor
Rafal Wojtczuk
 

12:30 to 13:45


Lunch: Pavillion at Caesars - sponsored by Microsoft Logo

13:45 to 15:00


A Hypervisor IPS
based on Hardware Assisted Virtualization Technology

Junichi Murakami
Concurrency Attacks in Web Applications
Scott Stender
Alexander Vidergar
TBD
Dan Kaminsky
Hacking and Injecting Federal Trojans
Lukas Grunwald
Side-channel Timing
Attacks on MSP430 Microcontroller Firmware

Travis Goodspeed
REST for the WIcked
Bryan Sullivan
Detecting & Preventing
the Xen Hypervisor
Subversions

Joanna Rutkowska
Rafal Wojtczuk
 

15:15 to 16:30


Secure the Planet! New Strategic Initiatives from Microsoft to Rock Your World
Mike Reavey
Katie Moussouris
Steve Adegbite
How To Impress
Girls With Browser
Memory Protection Bypasses

Alexander Sotirov
Mark Dowd
The Internet is
Broken: Beyond
Document.Cookie - Extreme Client-side Exploitation

Nathan McFeters
Rob Carter
John Heasman
Hacking and Injecting Federal Trojans
Lukas Grunwald
Mifare - Little Security, Despite Obscurity
Karsten Nohl
Get Rich or Die Trying - Making Money
on the Web,
the Black Hat Way

Jeremiah Grossman
Arian Evans
Bluepilling the Xen Hypervisor
Joanna Rutkowska
Alexander Tereshkin

16:30 to 16:45


Coffee Service: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Promenade - sponsored by Core Security logo
 

16:45 to 18:00


Braving the Cold:
New Methods for Preventing
Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

Patrick McGregor
Methods for Understanding
Targetted Attacks with Office Documents

Bruce Dang
Windows Hibernation
File for Fun and Profit

Matthieu Suiche
Oracle Forensics
David Litchfield
Inducing Momentary
Faults Within
Secure Smartcards/
Microcontrollers

Christopher Tarnovsky
Pushing the Camel
Through the Eye of a Needle

Haroon Meer
VirtuallySecure
Oded Horovitz

Turbo Talks – August 7, 2008

08:00-08:50 Continental Breakfast: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Convention Floor - sponsored by Nokia

10:00-10:20 Winning the Race to Bare Metal – UEFI Hypervisors by Don Bailey, Martin Mocko

10:30-10:50  Metamorphic / Polymorphic Malware DNA by Chet Hosmer

11:00-11:15 Coffee Service: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Convention Floor - sponsored by Google

11:15-11:35  A Fox in the Hen House (UPnP IGD) by Jonathan Squire

11:45-12:05  SQL Injection Worms for Fun and Profit by Justin Clarke

12:15-12:35 Mobile Phone Messaging Anti-Forensics by Zane Lackey, Luis Miras

12:30-13:45 Lunch: Pavillion at Caesars - sponsored by Microsoft

13:45-14:05 Protecting Vulnerable Applications with IIS7 by Brian Holyfield

14:15-14:35  Got Citrix, Hack It! by Shanit Gupta

14:45-15:05  Vista and ActiveX Controls by Su Yong Kim

15:15-15:35  Fuzzing Proprietary SCADA Protocols by Sergey Bratus

15:45-16:05 Deobfuscator: an Automated Approach to the Identification and Removal of Code Obfuscation by Eric Laspe, Jason Raber

16:30-16:45 Coffee Service: Fourth Floor Palace Tower Promenade - sponsored by Core Security

16:45-17:05  Free-space Quantum Key Distribution at GHz Transmission Rates by Joshua Bienfang

17:15-17:35  Playing by Virtual Security Rules: How Virtualization Changes Everything and What to Do about It by Steve Pate

17:45-18:05  Meet the Owner of a Real Hacked Company - Forensic Analysis by Mark Shelhart