Tag: History
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NaClCON Talks I Am Excited For
Earlier this month, I published “My Unofficial NaClCON FAQ” talking about a new security conference (NaClCON) that I am excited for. It’s still a bit surprising to myself that I am interested in one at all. I fully thought I was done with them, but here we are! After participating on the Call For Papers…
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My Unofficial NaClCON FAQ
As someone who has basically become disillusioned with most information security conferences, I didn’t find myself to be excited about another, let alone a new one. Then along came NaClCON and it changed my mind. It was a matter of days before I volunteered to help with the Call For Papers (CFP) review. With the…
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Titan 1 Missile Silo Exploration
[Note: This is a more detailed account to accompany pictures I have had online for some time. Also be warned, a few pictures are of graffiti from the early 90s and may be offensive.] I’m sure most people have heard about, and even seen pictures of, old missile silos from the 1950s and 1960s. Some…
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112 Years of Vulnerabilities: How did we get here, knowing what we know?
I gave a presentation on computer vulnerability history at BSides Delaware in November, 2013. Shortly after, I gave the presentation a couple times at Westchester Community College and the University of Pennsylvania, along with a brief version for the Invisible Harms conference at UPenn. The linked version below is the revised copy after my initial…
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Oldest Vulnerability Contest – Winner
[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] On December 20, 2005, I posted a contest looking for the oldest documented vulnerability. This generated a lot of interest and was posted to the FunSec Mail List which generated even more interest and information. It also lead to me spending more time digging through my own…
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The Oldest Vulnerability Contest
[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] What is the oldest documented vulnerability? As far as OSVDB is aware, it’s a tie between UNIX-V6 su File Descriptor Exhaustion Local Privilege Escalation and Sendmail Unspecified Multiple Security Issues (yes, we’d love to know the details of the Sendmail issues back then!). These were documented on…