Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category

Padding oracle attacks: in depth

Filed under: Conferences, Crypto, Hacking, Tools

This post is about padding oracle vulnerabilities and the tool for attacking them - "Poracle" I'm officially releasing right now. You can grab the Poracle tool on Github! At my previous job — Tenable Network Security — one of the first tasks I ever had was to write a vulnerability check for MS10-070 — a [...]

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Permalink Comments (14) Ron Bowes Jan 2, 2013

Ethics of password cracking/dissemination

Filed under: Conferences, Hacking, Passwords

It's rare these days for me to write blogs that I have to put a lot of thought into. Most of my writing is technical, which comes pretty naturally, but I haven't written an argument since I minored in philosophy. So, if my old Ethics or Philosophy profs are reading this, I'm sorry! Introduction Anybody [...]

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Permalink Comments (11) Ron Bowes Jan 24, 2011

Faking demos for fun and profit

Filed under: Conferences, DNS, Hacking, Nmap, Tools

This week Last week Earlier this month Last month Last year (if this intro doesn't work, I give up trying to post this :) ), I presented at B-Sides Ottawa, which was put on by Andrew Hay and others (and sorry I waited so long before posting this... I kept revising it and not publishing). [...]

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Permalink Comments (1) Ron Bowes Nov 27, 2010

Update on my life, conferences, career, etc

Filed under: Conferences

Hey all! It's been awhile since I've written on my blog, and I apologize. I'm at a job now where I actually spend my day working instead of pondering, so it's hard to find time! :) So, what's new with me? I'm working on some cool new Nmap stuff right now, so I'm hoping to [...]

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Permalink Comments (5) Ron Bowes Oct 29, 2010

Who's going to Shmoocon?

Filed under: Conferences

Hey everybody, I'm heading to Shmoocon on Feb 4 - 8, so two things: a) Who wants to meet up? I have plans on the Saturday, but not much else yet. b) Please don't hack me while I'm gone. ;)

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Permalink Comments (1) Ron Bowes Jan 18, 2010

Toorcon Slides

Filed under: Conferences

Hey all, Thanks for everybody who came out to my Toorcon talk! I had a great weekend, even the part where I got stuck in San Fransisco and spent two full days getting home. Oops :) A couple people asked me if I'd put up my slides, so here you go: http://svn.skullsecurity.org:81/ron/security/2009-10-toorcon/2009-10%20Toorcon.pdf (If you want [...]

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Permalink Comments (0) Ron Bowes Oct 27, 2009

Toorcon coming up!

Filed under: Conferences, Hacking

Hey all, I'll be presenting at Toorcon San Diego in a couple week (finalized lineup, my talk!).

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Permalink Comments (0) Ron Bowes Oct 9, 2009