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Thursday, October 13
 

9:30am EDT

The Ways Hackers Are Taking To Win The Mobile Malware Battle

In the proverbial game of cat-and-mouse between endpoint security vendors and malware writers, malware attacks have recently grown more sophisticated. More enterprises are losing ground to hackers, who are able to outmaneuver static and runtime solutions by constantly changing their attack strategies. The team that uncovered iOS malicious profiles, WiFiGate, HTTP Request Hijacking, No iOS Zone and Invisible Profiles are taking it upon themselves to coach developers and organizations on how to regain control, and turn the tables on the hackers behind next-generation mobile malware. 


In his presentation, Yair will discuss cutting-edge techniques used by malware writers to circumvent mobile security paradigms such as app-sandboxing and containers. Mr. Amit will then break down the current set of techniques (signatures, static analysis & dynamic analysis) used to identify malware on mobile devices, and identify the pros and cons of these approaches. He will also explain why attackers constantly succeed in fooling these technologies, and explore the problem of false positive/false negative tradeoffs in such solutions. 

During a live, interactive demo, Yair will create a mobile malware on stage, meant to be undetected by static and runtime analysis technologies.


Speakers
avatar for Yair Amit

Yair Amit

CTO & Founder, Skycure
Yair Amit is co-founder and CTO at Skycure, leading the company’s research and vision and overseeing its R&D center. Yair has been active in the security industry for more than a decade with his research regularly covered by media outlets and presented in security conferences around... Read More →


Thursday October 13, 2016 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

10:45am EDT

Your License for Bug Hunting Season
You don’t need a license for bug hunting season anymore. Bug bounty programs are becoming well established as a valuable tool in identifying vulnerabilities early. The Department of Defense has authorized its first bug bounty program, and many vendors are taking a fresh look. While the programs are highly effective, many questions remain about how to structure bug bounty programs to address the concerns that vendors and researchers have about controlling bug hunters, security and privacy, contractual issues with bug hunters, what happens if there is a rogue hacker in the crowd, and liability and compliance concerns. This presentation will cover the best practices for structuring effective bug bounty programs.

Speakers
avatar for Jim Denaro

Jim Denaro

Partner, CipherLaw
Jim is a registered patent attorney in the Washington, D.C. area and advises clients on offensive and defensive applications of intellectual property. Jim has particular expertise in information security and cybersecurity technologies, and is a frequent speaker and writer on the subject... Read More →
avatar for Casey Ellis

Casey Ellis

Founder, Bugcrowd
As Founder of Bugcrowd, Casey Ellis brings over 14 years of information security experience to lead the company’s technology vision and strategic operation. Prior to Bugcrowd, he served as chief security officer at ScriptRock and as an information security specialist and account... Read More →


Thursday October 13, 2016 10:45am - 11:45am EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

1:00pm EDT

Barbarians at the Gate(way)
This talk will examine the tools, methods and data behind the DDoS and web attacks against cloud platforms and traditional architectures that are prevalent in the news headlines.

Using collected information, the presentation will demonstrate what the attackers are using to cause their mischief & mayhem, and examine the timeline and progression of attackers as they move from the historical page defacers to the motivated attacker.

We will look at their motivations and rationale and try to give you some sort of understanding of what patterns to be aware of for your own protection.

Speakers
avatar for Dave Lewis

Dave Lewis

Dave has 30 years of industry experience. He has extensive experience in IT security operations and management. Dave is the Founder and Managing Director for Liquidmatrix.io. Dave has worked at companies such as Akamai, IBM, Duo Security, Cisco and AMD. He is the founder of the security... Read More →


Thursday October 13, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

2:15pm EDT

Should there be an Underwriters Laboratories certification for software in IoT products?
The US Cybersecurity National Action Plan released in February 2016 announced that the US government, specifically the Department of Homeland Security, is collaborating with the Underwriters Laboratories and industry partners to develop a Cybersecurity Assurance Program that would test and certify the security of devices that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT), such as infusion pumps and refrigerators. One of the goals is to ensure that software embedded in these devices is free of vulnerabilities that could be exploited. 

UL certification of software within products is a controversial topic. Proponents point to CyberUL certification as a means of assuring that IoT products meet acceptable standards such as owner-unique passwords, automated software and firmware updates, and IoT product software that is free of SQL injection and Cross Site Scripting flaws. Proponents also see the CyberUL as a proactive measure to provide security safeguards for the vastly expanding digital infrastructure. Opponents point out that it is a major investment in a solution that addresses less than 0.1% of real-world attacks; many would rather see the investment in CyberUL transferred to fixing the problems that account for most attacks, such as unpatched software, bad passwords and users succumbing to phishing. Opponents also say that the cost associated with getting CyberUL certification can create a barrier to the introduction of innovative products.

This panel will discuss the pros and cons of the Cyber Assurance Program’s pursuit of a CyberUL certification and the impact it may have on the application security community. It will appeal to conference attendees who are interested in how policy affects technology, builders of new technologies that are targets for CyberUL certification, and breakers who may see the CyberUL as either an opportunity or a challenge to overcome.

Speakers
avatar for Josh Corman

Josh Corman

Joshua Corman is a Founder of I am The Cavalry (dot org) and CSO for PTC. Corman previously served as Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council, CTO for Sonatype, Director of Security Intelligence for Akamai, and in senior research & strategy roles for The... Read More →
avatar for Anita D'Amico

Anita D'Amico

CEO, Code Dx, Inc.
Anita D’Amico, PhD. is CEO of Code Dx, Inc., which provides application security orchestration and correlation solutions that automate AppSec workflows. Prior to taking on the role of CEO, Anita was the Director of Secure Decisions, a cybersecurity R&D organization that developed... Read More →
avatar for Kevin Greene

Kevin Greene

Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology
Kevin Greene works in the federal government overseeing software assurance and application security research and development projects. He currently is focusing on the build-out of the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP), a national marketplace and collaborative research forum designed... Read More →


Thursday October 13, 2016 2:15pm - 3:15pm EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

3:30pm EDT

When encryption is not enough: Attacking Wearable - Mobile Application communication over BLE
Communication protocols have evolved from the traditional Serial and LAN ports to complex and lightweight protocols of today, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), ANT+ and ZigBee. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a popular protocol of choice for wearables which are low energy, low performance computing systems. The BLE standard specification provides for a variety of security mechanisms for channel encryption to protect data against snooping and man-in-the-middle style attacks.

In our presentation, we talk about the security assumptions made by popular mobile operating systems when they adopt the BLE specification and how this impacts their communication with wearable devices. We include vulnerability case studies to discuss how rogue mobile applications can use the same set of BLE encryption keys as the legitimate companion application, and get access to personal information or cause denial of service conditions on the wearables. We will discuss the insufficiencies of the protocols and the need for extra measures if the use cases demand confidentiality and integrity of data in transit.

We will present high level flows to correctly design secure communication channels between a phone application and the wearable device.

Speakers
avatar for Chandra Prakash Gopalaiah

Chandra Prakash Gopalaiah

Intel Corp
Chandra has worked in software development and security domain for about 8 years in various roles. Prior to joining Intel, he worked for Motorola Mobility Inc., in Android development. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from San Diego State University
avatar for Sumanth Naropanth

Sumanth Naropanth

Intel Corp
Sumanth has worked in the information security industry for a decade in a variety of roles, including incident response, feature development and security assurance. He worked for Sun Microsystems and Palm before his current job at Intel. He has a Masters in Computer Science (Security... Read More →
avatar for Kavya Racharla

Kavya Racharla

Intel Corp
Kavya has a Masters in Information Security from the Johns Hopkins University and a passion for Security. She worked for Oracle and Qualcomm’s security teams before she started her current job at Intel.


Thursday October 13, 2016 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001
 
Friday, October 14
 

9:30am EDT

Why using SMS in the authentication chain is risky and what better options are available
Passwords are horrible for security. Over the past 20 years we’ve bolstered the password with other factors, the most common being a one time password (OTP, TOTP, HOTP) that is either generated on a physical device the user holds, in a smartphone app or most commonly sent via SMS. Using SMS for authentication is not secure. We’ve known this for years, but recently we’ve been reminded of this with problems with Google and Apple SMS security. 

SMS is important to ensure we have a backup way of allowing people to login to systems, but it should always be a last resort. So what’s the first resort? Second factors to the password need a different communications channel to the one a user is authenticating to. SMS is not secure, but push notification methods are. It is possible to initiate a communication channel via Apple, Google and Microsoft mobile notification networks. At the end of these push notifications is a secured app that in turn securely communicates with the 2FA back end. Not only is this method more secure, it’s actually a far improved user experience that can be extended beyond the login to secure in application transactions.

This presentation will go over the limitations of traditional two-factor methods and introduce the improved approach using a push notification channel to achieve the same goal, i.e. authenticate a user identity by validating the initiating request comes from a person who has something in their possession which is trusted.

Speakers
avatar for Simon Thorpe

Simon Thorpe

Director of Product, Twilio - Authy
Simon works in the product group at Authy and has over 15 years of experience in the security and identity management space. Working at companies like Oracle, Microsoft and Okta, he has spent a lot of time understanding and architecting solutions to secure all sorts of information... Read More →



Friday October 14, 2016 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

10:45am EDT

Patterns of Authentication and Self-Announcement in the Internet of Things (IoT)
The need to connect ‘things’ to each other in the IoT ecosystem introduces new security requirements for authentication and self-announcement due to four major characteristics of IoT
1. Physical access and infinite time available to adversaries to take apart devices 
2. Lower computation power of standalone devices 
3. Unforeseen and emergent behavior of the system if arbitrary nodes are compromised 
4. Endless possibility of privacy intrusion based on data intelligence and indirect identity inference. 
In this work the IoT systems are modelled using a number of elements: person, machine/device, service, server, client (esp. mobile), and passive marker. New authentication scenarios emerge when these items introduce themselves to each other on trusted or untrusted networks. The majority of authentication and self-announcement needs could be modelled using the above elements. For major authentication and self-announcement scenarios, possible authentication patterns are presented. Here are four examples of how these patterns apply to sample IoT scenarios: 
• Home automation as enabled by NEST devices
• Device collaboration in Zigbee-based networks
• Smart inventory management using NFC/RFID
• Remote device control based on XMPP (SASL authentication)
The minimum computation power (capability to perform cryptographic operations) and privacy preserving considerations are analyzed in each case.

Speakers
avatar for Farbod H Foomany

Farbod H Foomany

Senior Security Researcher (Tech. Lead), Security Compass
Farbod H Foomany is a senior application security researcher (technical lead) at security compass. He has a bachelor degree in electrical engineering (control systems), Masters degree in artificial intelligence and robotics, and has completed a PhD with main research on security aspects... Read More →
avatar for Amir Pourafshar

Amir Pourafshar

Application Security Researcher, Security Compass
Amir Pourafshar is an application security researcher at Security Compass. Amir is currently part of a research team working on an IoT project that aims to investigate and formulate the security requirements of system design/development in internet of things (IoT) ecosystem. Amir... Read More →


Friday October 14, 2016 10:45am - 11:45am EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

1:00pm EDT

Needle: Finding Issues within iOS Applications
Assessing the security of an iOS application typically requires a plethora of tools, each developed for a specific need and all with different modes of operation and syntax. The Android ecosystem has tools like "drozer" that have solved this problem and aim to be a ‘one stop shop’ for the majority of use cases, however iOS does not have an equivalent.

"Needle" is an open source modular framework which aims to streamline the entire process of conducting security assessments of iOS applications, and acts as a central point from which to do so. Given its modular approach, Needle is easily extensible and new modules can be added in the form of python scripts. Needle is intended to be useful not only for security professionals, but also for developers looking to secure their code. A few examples of testing areas covered by Needle include: data storage, inter-process communication, network communications, static code analysis, hooking and binary protections.​ The only requirement in order to run Needle effectively is a jailbroken device.

We will be describing the tool's architecture, capabilities and roadmap. We will also demonstrate how Needle can be used to find vulnerabilities in iOS applications from both a black-box and white-box perspective (if source code is provided). 

Speakers
avatar for Marco Lancini

Marco Lancini

Security Consultant, MWR InfoSecurity
Marco Lancini is a Security Consultant at MWR InfoSecurity in the UK, specialising in mobile applications. He works assessing apps and device configurations for a number of large organisations including banking, financials, telco, and energy providers. He has a Master degree in Engineering... Read More →


Friday October 14, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

2:15pm EDT

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em Join ‘Em: Practical Tips For Running A Successful Bug Bounty Program
Having a bug bounty program is one of the most efficient methods of finding security vulnerabilities today. But, as anyone who has tried to run a bug bounty program knows, it's not a trivial undertaking... As professionals who have helped to manage hundreds of bug bounty programs, we're uniquely positioned to provide advice on how to succeed. Whether you're already running a bug bounty program, are looking to run a bug bounty program, or are a researcher, this talk aims to deepen your knowledge of the subject.

Speakers
avatar for Grant McCracken

Grant McCracken

Solutions Architect, Bugcrowd
Grant is currently the Director of Program Operations and Solutions at Bugcrowd, and has been in the application security space for the last eight years, and the bug bounties for the last five. He's gotten his OSCP, given talks at Appsec USA and EU, and enjoys helping others get into... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Trauner

Daniel Trauner

Daniel Trauner is a Senior Application Security Engineer at Bugcrowd – a crowdsourced cybersecurity solution. He works with (and is sometimes a part of) the thousands of security researchers worldwide who collectively attempt to understand, break, and fix anything that companies... Read More →


Friday October 14, 2016 2:15pm - 3:15pm EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

3:30pm EDT

Containerizing your Security Operations Center
As security professionals, we have no shortage of tools available to us in our offensive and defensive pursuits. How we choose to deploy, maintain, and share these tools across teams can prove to be burdensome and overly complex. Security teams are becoming swept up in the DevOps movement and we are being encouraged to bring visibility into our workflows and toolsets. This means moving things from our local boxes to a more available and collaborative environment. This talk will share lessons learned from building a pluggable, cloud­based "Security Operations Center" running entirely on containers to help security teams rapidly build out scanning pipelines, centralize alerts, investigate malware, and easily collaborate with teams across the organization. I’ll dive into the architecture and design of the cluster and how to quickly get a POC running in Kubernetes

Speakers
avatar for Jimmy Mesta

Jimmy Mesta

CTO, Manicode Security
Jimmy Mesta is an application security leader that has been involved in Information Security for nearly 10 years. He is the chapter leader of OWASP Santa Barbara and co-organizer of the AppSec California security conference. Jimmy has spent time on both the offense and defense side... Read More →


Friday October 14, 2016 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Grand North Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001
 
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