Toorcon Wrap-Up

Now that all is said and done, Toorcon 9 was a smashing success! It was well stocked on great talks and good people and, of course, the after parties were wild fun.

There was a strong theme of automated exploitation this year. Three of the talks that I saw focused on the subject. First up is Jerome Athias, who impressed everyone with his presentation's 3D graphical cinema introduction and then impressed again with his toolkit (written in an IDE called WinDev) for writing exploit modules for the Metasploit Framework in only a minute or two.

Another great talk was given by Jason Medeiros. He started off describing his methodology for detecting different types of crashes and followed up with a cool demo. He had written "from scratch" a complete debugger and heap analyzer. His program took a custom fuzzer definition and a binary as input. A few moments later, his demo generated a C exploit for the stack overflow that his fuzzer had just found.

Then there's the talk given by Nathan Rittenhouse and Johnny Cache. Their talk was focused on Byakugan, a WinDbg plugin. Byakugan is filled with goodies, but the real show stopper was the 3d-accelerated heap visualization. Nathan also gave a demo of his new Ruby replacement for pydbg, which seems to be exactly what I have been looking for. This should be posted to http://noxusfiles.com/ soon. Thanks, Nathan!