Hardware security is often overlooked during a product's development, which can leave it vulnerable to hacker attacks resulting in theft of service, loss of revenue, identity theft, unauthorized network access, or a damaged reputation. This presentation will show you how to reduce the number of vulnerabilities in your embedded hardware designs and how to evaluate the threats against your products. Learning from history is important to avoid repeating old design flaws, so we will also look at previously successful hardware attacks against security products.

Joe Grand is the President of Grand Idea Studio, a San Diego-based product development and intellectual property licensing firm, where he specializes in embedded system design, computer security research, and inventing new concepts and technologies. Joe has testified before the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and is a former member of the legendary hacker collective L0pht Heavy Industries. He is the author of "Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty" and a co-author of "Stealing The Network: How to Own A Continent". Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University.

David Litchfield leads the world in the discovery and publication of computer security vulnerabilities. This outstanding research was recognised by Information Security Magazine who voted him as 'The World's Best Bug Hunter' for 2003. To date, David has found over 150 vulnerabilities in many of today's popular products from the major software companies (the majority in Microsoft, Oracle).

David is also the original author for the entire suite of security assessment tools available from NGSSoftware. This includes the flagship vulnerability scanner Typhon III, the range of database auditing tools NGSSquirrel for SQL Server, NGSSquirrel for Oracle, OraScan and Domino Scan II.

In addition to his world leading vulnerability research and the continued development of cutting edge security assessment software, David has also written or co-authored on a number of security related titles including, "SQL Server Security", "Shellcoder's handbook" and "Special Ops: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX and Oracle"

This presentation explores the explosive growth of a technique known as "Google Hacking". When the modern security landscape includes such heady topics as "blind SQL injection" and "integer overflows", it's refreshing to see such a deceptively simple tool bent to achieve such amazing results; this is hacking in the purest sense of the word. Attendees will learn how to torque Google to detect SQL injection points and login portals, execute portscans and CGI scans, fingerprint web servers, locate incredible information caches such as firewall and IDS logs, password databases, SQL dumps and much more - all without sending a single packet to the target! Borrowing the techniques pioneered by malicious "Google hackers", this talk aims to show security practitioners how to properly protect clients from this often overlooked and dangerous form of information leakage.

The speaker, Johnny Long, maintains the Internet's most comprehensive database of Google exposures on his website.

Johnny Long did not develop his skills within the hallowed halls of higher learning but rather by spending way too many late nights huddled in front of his computer, developing his anti-social tendencies.

Mr Long (Johnny's professional alter-ego) has previously presented at SANS and other computer security conferences nationwide. In addition, he has presented before several government alphabet-soup entities including three starting with the letter 'A', four starting with the letter 'D', a handful starting with the letters 'F' and 'S' and two starting with the today's letter, the letter 'N'. During his career as an attack and penetration specialist, Mr Long has performed active network and physical security assessments (one in the cube is worth twenty on the net) for hundreds of government and commercial clients.

Johnny Long is the Author of 'Penetration Testing with Google', available December 2004 from Syngress Publishing

Cybercrime Treaty and Legal Environment of Japanese Computer Crime and Laws
Hisamichi Okamura

The Keys to the Kingdom: Understanding Covert Channels of Communication
Russ Rogers, CEO, Security Horizon

Security professionals see the compromise of networked systems on a day to day basis. It's something they've come to expect. The blatant exploitation of operating systems, applications, and configurations is a common event and is taken into account by most security engineers. But a different type of security compromise threatens to crumble the underlying security of the modern organization.

There are forms of communication that transfer sensitive data outside of organizations every day. Covert channels are used to move proprietary information in and out of commercial, private, and government entities on a daily basis. These covert channels include things such as Steganography, Covert network channels, Data File Header and Footer Appending, and Alternate Data Streams. Media to be covered include images, audio files, TCP covert channels, Word substitution mechanisms, the Windows file system and others.

This presentation will show the attendees common means of covert communication by hiding information through multiple means. We'll also discuss the future of Covert Channels and how hidden information is becoming more and more difficult to detect. Detection of these forms of communication is trailing well behind the technology creating them, this presentation will discuss some of the newest concepts in utilizing Covert Channels and Steganography.

Russ Rogers is the CEO of Security Horizon, a Colorado Springs based information security professional services firm and is a technology veteran with over 13 years of technology and information security experience. He has served in multiple technical and management information security positions that include Manager of Professional Services, Manager Security Support, Senior Security Consultant and Unix Systems Administrator. Mr. Rogers is a United States Air Force Veteran and has supported the National Security Agency and the Defense Information Systems Agency in both a military and contractor role. Russ is also an Arabic Linguist. He is a certified instructor for the National Security Agency's INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (IAM) and INFOSEC Evaluation Methodology (IEM) courses. He holds his M.S. degree from the University of Maryland is also a Co-Founder of the Security Tribe (securitytribe.com), a security think tank and research organization.

When the Tables Turn
Charl van der Walt, SensePost
Jaco van Graan, SensePost

Until now network security defences have largely been about building walls and fences around the network. This talk revolves around spiking those walls & electrifying those fences! During this talk we will highlight techniques (and tools) that can be used to turn the tables on prospective attackers with passive-Strike-Back. We will explore the possibilities across the assesment spectrum responding to the standard assesment phases of Intelligence gathering, Reconnaissance & Attack with Disinformation, Misdirection, Camouflage, Obfuscation & Proportional Response.

Charl van der Walt is a founder member of SensePost. He studied Computer Science at UNISA, Mathematics at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and has a Diploma in Information Security from the Rand Afrikaans University. He is an accredited BS7799 Lead Auditor with the British Institute of Standards in London. Charl has a number of years experience in Information Security and has been involved in a number of prestigious security projects in Africa, Asia and Europe. He is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences nationwide and is regularly published on internationally recognized forums like SecurityFocus. Charl has a dog called Fish.

In the case of vulnerabilities which allow the execution of arbitrary machine code, the reliability of exploitation is swayed by the type of vulnerability, the conditions surrounding the vulnerable code, and the attack vector, among other considerations. The reliability of exploitation an important factor for those attempting to exploit a vulnerability—especially so for worm and virus writers—so therefore it is also an important consideration for the threat analysis of security vulnerabilities.

In Japan, some public institutions and non-governmental enterprises are providing detailed information and threat analyses of vulnerabilities, exploits, and worms. Because the majority of the systems in Japan run the Japanese version of Windows, the analysis and consideration of language-specific dependencies are very important factors for both the providers and consumers of such information in Japan, especially in case of the worms.

Since one of highest priorities of a worm is to propagate as far as possible, some recent worms have employed techniques that avoid language and version dependencies, such as choosing return addresses that can be used across multiple language versions of Windows.

In this presentation, the discussion of detailed and practical techniques to achieve environment independence will be avoided, but, at least understanding the technical overview and potentiality of these techniques is important for both providing proper threat analyses, and understanding them in depth.

In Black Hat USA 2004, as part of our threat analysis research, we discussed return address discovery using context-aware machine code emulation—namely, our EEREAP project— which is intended to help prove whether universal return addresses exist. In Black Hat Japan 2004, we will expand on this presentation, and we will both explore the risk factors that aid in the avoidance of language and version dependencies, and show how to mitigate these risks.

Yuji Ukai is a researcher and senior software engineer with eEye Digital Security. After completing his Ph.D. in computer science at the National University of Tokushima, he began his employment at an appliance vendor in Japan where he developed embedded operating systems. Over the last several years he has discovered several important security holes affecting various software products (Workstation Service and LSASS for Windows, etc) as well as pioneered new trends in wireless security technologies.