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Cambridge OWASP Chapter Meeting

Tuesday 21 st October 2014 17:30 – 20:30, Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB003), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Hosted by the Department of Computing & Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Cambridge Chapter

Guest speakers: Eireann Leverett

Eireann Leverett is a Senior Consultant at IOActive where he focuses on Smart Grid and SCADA systems. He studied Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Engineering at Edinburgh University and went on to get his Masters in Advanced Computer Science at University of Cambridge. He studied under Frank Stajano and Jon Crowcroft in Cambridge's computer security group. In between, he worked for five years at GE Energy and did a six-month engagement with ABB in their corporate research department.

Title : Switches get Stitches

This mini workshop is based on the successful 44Con talk this year and will introduce you to Industrial Ethernet Switches and their vulnerabilities. These switches are used in environments with industrial automation equipment, like substations, factories, refineries, and ports; in other words, SCADA and ICS switches. You will become familiar with how these switches are used and do some light traffic analysis and firmware reverse engineering, bring your laptop with Wireshark installed!! During this workshop, Eireann will discuss several vulnerabilities and share the methods used to discover them as well as techniques for exploitation.

This is partially a hands-on workshop, with pcaps, network forensics, binary analysis, web application vulnerabilities, etc. It teaches about bad session entropy, sidejacking, CSRF, brute forcing MD5, DoS in the context of industrial processes, and carving default private keys from firmware images. Essentially, this is "how I found the bugs in my CVE list for 2013-2014", breaking industrial ethernet switches.

Bring along your laptop with Wireshark installed.

Agenda

17:30 – 17:45 Welcome from the OWASP Cambridge Chapter Leader, Adrian Winckles, Course Leader in Information Security & Forensic Computing, Anglia Ruskin University

17:45 – 19:15 Eireann Leverett – IOActive – Switches got Stitches

19:15 – 19:30 Q & A – Further meetings and ideas.

19:30 – 20:30 Refreshments & Networking in LAB027

Registration:

To register for this free event, please register online here

The conference will be held in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Room LAB003 (Breakout Room LAB027 for networking & refreshments).

Please enter through the Helmore Building and ask at reception.

Meeting Location

Anglia Ruskin University

Cambridge Campus

East Road

Cambridge

CB1 1PT

Get further information on travelling to the university.

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/your_university/anglia_ruskin_campuses/cambridge_campus/find_cambridge.html

Everyone is welcome to join us at our chapter meetings.

Planned dates for upcoming events

2 December 2014

10 February 2015

17 March 2015

21 April 2015