Just back from presenting lab-based training session Detecting & Mitigating Attacks Using Your Network Infrastructure with Joe Karpenko at Blackhat USA 2012. Great to see a Defense track of Briefings which included Intrusion Detection Along The Kill Chain: Why Your Detection System Sucks And What To Do About It and more of an emphasis on protecting or remediating network infrastructures in topics like Targeted Intrusion Remediation: Lessons From The Front Lines. I attended several of these briefings and was impressed with the breadth of information provided for network operators. The Defense briefings align well with the network security best practices advocated by Cisco and presented in our training. These best practices include: Read More »

Tags: Black Hat, Black Hat 2012, network defense, security

In many exploit scenarios, an attacker finds a target and, if possible, establishes remote control over the system through known or unknown exploits. Whether the attacker uses a buffer overflow, insecure configuration, phishing for credentials, or cookie-stealing, the goal is clear: get a remote shell and gain complete control. Then what?

It is this post-exploitation environment that has interested me at this year’s Black Hat 2011. Several talks and trainings discuss post-exploitation techniques, and I’d like to share them in the interest of research – and defense.

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Tags: Black Hat, Exploit, security, security research, vulnerability