So….we heard Dino & Alex and Aaron & Zef were doing some blingin new trainings. So we felt we had to keep up with the rest of the New York Krew and do one….Ok, not really. We (the two Stephens) have spent a bunch of head-down time recently doing embedded research (as we mentioned in the… [Read more…]
For most of my career as a software developer/security researcher I’ve romanticized ‘hardware hacking’. In my late teens and early twenties as I was learning about software development and software security I would occasionally buy Nuts and Volts from Microcenter and read Karl Lunt‘s Amateur Robotics column. Having devoured William Gibson‘s oeuvre in my late… [Read more…]
July 27, 2011 by slawlerguy
Beans recently (okay, it was MONTHS ago and I had this post pending in review since then) attended the Immunity INFILTRATE Conference in South Beach Miami, as well as the MASTER CLASS HACKING TRAINING. Unfortunately this Stephen rarely (if ever) takes photos of anything, so you won’t see pictures of Internet superstar hackers here. Instead… [Read more…]
Earlier this summer Beans attended the weeklong SMT Solver Summer school held at MIT campus in Boston, Mass. Over the last few years having seen some of the presentations by Pablo Sole on DEPLIB, blogposts by Sean Heelan, and having messed around a little bit with the REIL in BinNavi we were really curious to get a… [Read more…]
Last week we here at Beans attended the first annual BlackHat Abu Dhabi to speak on software sandboxing technologies (Google Chrome) and relevant security issues. (This was the same talk from EuSecWest and ReCon.) This was the first time I (Stephen A. Ridley) had been outside of the airport in the Middle East. (The closest… [Read more…]
For years, I have always wanted to attend ReCon. Since about 2005 or so, I’ve read all the slides and papers that came out of ReCon. It is one of the few conferences I really ever cared to follow. This year, the first time I was able to attend, I was actually invited to speak… [Read more…]
At the very last minute (partly due to some conversations on Twitter). Beans was invited to BlackHat Vegas 2010 to speak as an alternate. Having not officially applied to the CFP, it was a huge honor to be considered in this way. (Having already given the talk at Recon 2010 and Syscan helped, along with the… [Read more…]
We finally migrated to a new (hosted) blog system! Hopefully this will alleviate administrative ass-pain, and make posting more easy/fun/frequent. Anyway, Beans was recently at a buncha conferences. We went to EuSecWest Netherlands and SyScan Singapore. These two conferences were only one day apart and on opposite sides of the planet! The only way travel… [Read more…]
It has been a long while since we have posted anything here. The two Stephens have been busy. StephenL is always doing amazing things, and StephenR is always doing lame things, we just haven’t been so good about posting it. For what it’s worth, StephenR recently did a post over at Matasano Chargen on the… [Read more…]
Last week one of the Stephens (StephenR) from here at DontStuffBeansUpYourNose did a talk at uCon Brazil entitled “Introduction To Kernel Security Stuff“. This presentation was an introduction to driver developing, some cursory driver security issues (fuzzing and reversing), and kernel shellcoding. One of the other neat presentations was Julio Auto’s talk demoing a neat Windbg plugin to help with… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012 by s7ephen
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