Hi! Manuel Caballero here. I had the pleasure of penetration testing (pen-testing) the previous versions of Microsoft Silverlight, and now, for the last three weeks, I’ve been playing around with the beta version of Silverlight 3. When I say, “the pleasure”, I really mean it. Playing with Silverlight means to play with a plug-in that, …
Handle:C-Lizzle IRL: Celene Temkin Rank: Program Manager 2 & BlueHat Project Manager Likes: Culinary warfare, BlueHat hackers and responsible disclosure Dislikes: Acts of hubris, MySpace, orange mocha Frappaccinos! Hey folks! I know this is typically the time of year when birds are chirping, the rain is supposed to be letting up, and those of you …
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Here I am again writing on MS BlueHat blog, this time about Token Kidnapping. The first time I talked about Token kidnapping was a long time ago and now after a year the issues detailed in the presentation are finally fixed. Let’s see what happened. Before the first public Token Kidnapping presentation I talked to …
At BlueHat v8 in October 2008, Dave Weinstein, Jason Shirk and Lars Opstad presented the topic of when it’s okay to stop fuzzing (Fuzzed Enough? When It’s OK to Put the Shears Down). As part of that presentation, Dave talked about a technique used within Microsoft for triaging and categorizing crashes. By “Bucketizing” the crashes, …
Mike Andrews here. With a very broad brush, the vulnerabilities we see can be split into two categories — flaws and bugs. Flaws are inherent problems with the design of a system/application – Dan Kaminskys’ DNS vulnerability would be a good example. Bugs, on the other hand, are issues with the implementation of the software, …
Hello everyone, Celene Temkin here from the MSRC Ecosystem Strategy Team. BlueHat v8: C3P0wned ended a month ago and the success of the con lives on in the outstanding training and networking done between Microsoft employees and external speakers and guests. I’m happy to say the speaker video interviews, podcasts, anecdotes and archives are live …
I spent a lot of time trying to think about what to write for a BlueHat pre-conference blog entry and had a pretty hard time focusing on one topic. To handle this, I decided to comment on the state of security. While I’ve found plenty of things to be excited about with security, including improved …