[Noisebridge-discuss] Interested in Reverse Engineering or Vulnerability Research?

[aestetix aestetix]

I also support this class. I think it's a fantastic idea.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:10 PM, miah johnson <miah.johnson at chia-pet.org>wrote:

> Hey Marshall,
>
> I am interested in this class.
>
> -Miah
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> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:06 PM, unmarshal at gmail.com <unmarshal at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm a bit rusty, but I am looking for a reason to jump back in to the
>> above mentioned topics.  Would anyone be interested in attending a
>> class about reverse engineering software on intel processors and/or
>> identifying vulnerabilities in C code and exploitation techniques? I
>> spent a lot of time in the hacking scene and the computer security
>> industry doing these things and burned out and left it for full time
>> programming about 2 years ago.  I would have no problem teaching an
>> introductory class on these topics.  I will admit, I'm not super hip
>> on the latest in protection techniques that guard against these
>> attacks, but I could teach the fundamentals while getting up to speed
>> on circumventing the protection techniques.
>>
>> Vulnerability Research:
>>  * Basic stack-based buffer overflow identification and exploitation
>>  * Format string vulnerabilities
>>  * Integer overflow and signedness bugs
>>  * Heap corruption vulnerabilities (dlmalloc style)
>>  * Discussion of protections and getting around them..
>>
>> The reverse engineering bit can be included in a class like this as we
>> dive into the assembly code to identify these problems and debug the
>> process while we attempt to exploit them.
>>
>> Let me know if anyone is interested.  I don't really know the protocol
>> at NB for proposing this type of thing... I'm new in general.  It
>> seems like there isn't really any open time slots, so that will need
>> to be discussed.
>>
>> Let me know,
>> Marshall
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