My presentation slides from this year’s FOSSCOMM security sessions are now (also) available here.

The talk, entitled “Performing Digital Forensics with Open Source tools”, described the phases of the digital forensics investigation process and showed how these could be carried out with the aid of open source tools. The Q&A with students, administrators and security engineers in the audience led to a very interesting discussion on best practices for incident response.

All in all the presentation was a great success and I would like to thank both the organizers and the audience for making this such a wonderful event!

Presentation Material

• Presentation Slides (pdf)

census has participated once again at AthCon, the leading technical IT security conference in Greece. Our work entitled “Introducing the Parasite” presented a small device that is capable of creating a physical backdoor in an otherwise protected network.

census is happy to be participating for the second time at AthCon, the leading technical IT security conference in Greece! At this year’s conference, our researcher Nikos Tsagkarakis will be presenting the “Parasite”, a small device that is capable of creating a physical backdoor in an otherwise protected network.

census will be participating at the ELLAK 2011 conference panel on “Doing business with Open Source Software”. This session will take place on May 21st 2011 at 15:30, at the Ceremony Hall of the National Technological University of Athens.

census is proud to have participated in FOSSCOMM 2011, the annual hellenic conference that brings together Free/OSS communities and developers for a 2-day marathon of talks, workshops and technical discussions!

Black Hat Europe 2011 is now over and we are very happy to have participated once again in the best European IT security conference!

Continuing from our last year’s presentation, our talk this year focused on operating system kernel protections. Specifically, our researchers Patroklos Argyroudis and Dimitris Glynos collected their experiences from kernel exploit development and presented the ways in which modern operating systems protect their kernels from memory corruption attacks.

census researchers will be presenting “Protecting the Core”, an analysis of kernel exploitation mitigations at Black Hat Europe 2011. Once again this year, the European Black Hat Briefings conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain. We hope to see you there!

Update: Whitepaper and slides are now available here.

AthCon 2010 is now over and I must say that I’m really looking forward to next year’s event! Kudos to Christian, Kyprianos, Fotis, Chariton, Bernardo, Sandro, Iftach, Corrado, Rodrigo, Alberto and everyone else for making this such a great event!

The main theme of my presentation was “Context-keyed payload encoding”, a shellcode encoding technique that allows attackers to evade detection from NIDS that employ dynamic payload analysis.

census will be presenting “Context-keyed Payload Encoding: Fighting the Next Generation of IDS” at AthCon 2010. AthCon is a fresh IT security conference which will take place this summer in Greece! Our presentation will cover the latest in IDS evasion techniques for targeted shellcode and will feature new Metasploit modules implementing the presented techniques.

…you don’t want to miss out on this, so register now!

Update: Source code, slides and whitepaper are now available here.

Black Hat Europe 2010 is now over and after a brief ash cloud caused delay I am back in Greece. It has been a great conference, flawlessly organised and with many outstanding presentations. I would like to thank everyone that attended my presentation but also all the kind people that spoke to me before and afterwards. I hope to meet all of you again at a future event.