CanSec / PWN2OWN contest
Thursday, March 19. 2009
It has been some time since my last blog entry, I've been busy with my thesis. My defense is at the end of next month - finally getting ready with everything :)
This week I am in Vancouver for CanSec, I taught a course about honeypots on Monday. Now I'm enjoying the conference, the agenda is pretty cool this year! The main focus of yesterday was on mobile phones, most of the presentations dealt with smartphones like the iPhone or the Android platform. Sniffing keystrokes via a laser microphone or a voltmeter is next, really looking forward to that presentation.
CanSec also has a new edition of the PWN2OWN contest. This year, the main focus of the contest is web browsers and mobile phones. On the first day, several browsers were 0wned, Nils even managed to exploit three different browsers. Below is a screenshot of the scoreboard taken in the afternoon - Julien then managed to compromise the machine and afterwards Nils scored for the third time:
Interestingly, nobody attacked the smartphones - perhaps we see some attacks during day 2 and 3.
This week I am in Vancouver for CanSec, I taught a course about honeypots on Monday. Now I'm enjoying the conference, the agenda is pretty cool this year! The main focus of yesterday was on mobile phones, most of the presentations dealt with smartphones like the iPhone or the Android platform. Sniffing keystrokes via a laser microphone or a voltmeter is next, really looking forward to that presentation.
CanSec also has a new edition of the PWN2OWN contest. This year, the main focus of the contest is web browsers and mobile phones. On the first day, several browsers were 0wned, Nils even managed to exploit three different browsers. Below is a screenshot of the scoreboard taken in the afternoon - Julien then managed to compromise the machine and afterwards Nils scored for the third time:
Interestingly, nobody attacked the smartphones - perhaps we see some attacks during day 2 and 3.
