Session The Latest (and Craftiest) Attack and Penetration Techniques and Tools Nitesh Dhanjani, Manager, Advanced Security Centers, Ernst & Young LLP Track: Security Date: Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm Location: E144 Dhanjani discusses new and popular network and application Attack and Penetration techniques. Topics that will be covered include: - Quick review of the Attack and Penetration methodology: o Footprinting o Scanning o Enumeration o Exploiting remote vulnerabilities o Attempting privilege escalation o Installing backdoors and rootkits o Covering your tracks - Finding Vulnerabilities via Google: It is easy (and a lot of fun) to use Google in order to look for vulnerabilities such as pointers to sensitive data and resources. This section will detail some of the queries that can be used against Google to find such resources, in addition to already existing tools that automate the process by using the Google API. - Using the Nessus Framework: Nessus is a free and open source framework for developing custom vulnerability checks. NASL (Nessus Attack Scripting Language) makes it easy to develop plug-ins for the Nessus scanner in order to discover new vulnerabilities on a network. This section demonstrates the ease of use of NASL, along with a quick-start guide on writing your own Nessus plug-ins from scratch. - Exploiting Web Applications and Services: The most common vulnerabilities affecting web applications and services revolve around improper input validation. Techniques such as SQL-Injection and Cross Site scripting will be discussed. - Quick look at some useful tools and distributions: o Aircrack: Break WEP keys o Metasploit: Framework for writing exploits o Wikto: New web assessment tool o Whoppix: ‘Live’ Linux distribution armed with the latest tools and exploits o Ettercap: One of the best network sniffers available today - Mac OS X Post-compromise techniques: This section is specific to Mac OS X. Once attackers gain access to your Mac OS X computer, they will want to quickly get a hold of sensitive information on the machine. From gaining password hashes in order to crack passwords to quickly finding sensitive files to installing backdoors, this section covers the techniques used by Mac OS X root-kit authors.

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