One of the reasons for not blogging lately was the time I spent in
Berlin in and around the annual CCC congress. While they are still fresh
in memory, let me start with the funniest quotes of the congress. Over
the next days I'll start writing short reviews of all the talks I
attended. But for now, the quotes:
Vista users are not vulnerable... but they have other issues
- Luciano Bello, Predictable RNG in the vulnerable Debian OpenSSL package
It says 'network cable is unplugged'... oh there's a knot in the cable!
- Claus Cohnen, Life is a Holodeck
MS Office is used by everyone today... um... in large organisations
- Bruce Dang, Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents. The poor guy had a rough time being a Microsoft employee presenting in front of an almost all *nix audience, as he sometimes had to carefully choose his wording. Nevertheless, he did an excellent job
So the Exch... Mail gateway
- Bruce Dang, Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents
Mitigating attacks. Use Office 2007... I'm going to skip this slide
- Bruce Dang, Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents
The vulnerability in SNMPv3 is of the category that when you are asked to please provide your password, you answer: well, I don't know the password, but how about I give you the first letter? And it lets you in...
- Dan Kaminsky or FX/Phenoelit talked about the SNMP bug, but I dont remember who made the joke
Please defragment now
- When the room was over-crowded, the heralds asked that everyone moved to the right side to fill up all the open seats, so that people at the door could have a seat too. Someone had made the allusion to a defragmentation routine, and several heralds began using it. Not sure who started it though
Vista users are not vulnerable... but they have other issues
- Luciano Bello, Predictable RNG in the vulnerable Debian OpenSSL package
It says 'network cable is unplugged'... oh there's a knot in the cable!
- Claus Cohnen, Life is a Holodeck
MS Office is used by everyone today... um... in large organisations
- Bruce Dang, Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents. The poor guy had a rough time being a Microsoft employee presenting in front of an almost all *nix audience, as he sometimes had to carefully choose his wording. Nevertheless, he did an excellent job
So the Exch... Mail gateway
- Bruce Dang, Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents
Mitigating attacks. Use Office 2007... I'm going to skip this slide
- Bruce Dang, Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents
The vulnerability in SNMPv3 is of the category that when you are asked to please provide your password, you answer: well, I don't know the password, but how about I give you the first letter? And it lets you in...
- Dan Kaminsky or FX/Phenoelit talked about the SNMP bug, but I dont remember who made the joke
Please defragment now
- When the room was over-crowded, the heralds asked that everyone moved to the right side to fill up all the open seats, so that people at the door could have a seat too. Someone had made the allusion to a defragmentation routine, and several heralds began using it. Not sure who started it though
