Archive for the ‘Penetration Testing’ Category

Webcast Tomorrow: Smart Grid and AMI Security Concerns

Tomorrow at 1pm EST Matt Carpenter (InGuardians), Walt Sikura (Industrial Defender) and I are delivering a webcast titled “Smart Grid and AMI Security Concerns” where we talk about the security challenges of the smart grid, discussing tools and techniques through which an attacker could exploit the security of the smart grid.
I’m very fortunate to get [...]

July 22, 2009   Posted in: Hardware, Penetration Testing, Smart Grid  5 Comments

Cowpatty 4.5

After too much time I have posted coWPAtty 4.5 with several fixes and a couple of new features:

Fewer restrictions on collecting the data needed to mount an attack.В  The default behavior requires all 4 frames of the 4-way handshake to mount an attack.В  If you specify “-2″ on the command-line, coWPAtty will only require frames [...]

June 4, 2009   Posted in: 802.11, Penetration Testing, Security, Tool  4 Comments

Pen Test Perfect Storm Trilogy Slides

Over the last several months I had the pleasure of working with Ed Skoudis and Kevin Johnson in presenting a trilogy of webcasts titled the Pen Test Perfect Storm where we talk about techniques to combine network, web app and wireless pen testing. By combining these components of classic pen-tests, we are able to [...]

May 3, 2009   Posted in: 802.11, Exploit, Hacking, Penetration Testing, Security, Vista  No Comments

Why Zoher Anis Rocks My Inbox

If you haven’t met Zoher Anis at a SANS conference or other popular venue, please make an effort to do so as soon as possible. Zoher is one of the most awesome guys I know, and humbles me with his new presentation “Why Joshua Wright loves Windows Vista ? And why you should be [...]

April 11, 2009   Posted in: 802.11, Hacking, Penetration Testing, Security, Vista, Wireless  No Comments