I was 11 years young when The Hacker Manifesto was originally published in 1986 (yes, I’m that old). I had no idea about the manifesto at that age but several years later I begin tinkering with my first computer (an Apple IIe) and convinced my parents that I needed a separate phone line for a […]
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Here are the slides from my recent webinar. Sorry about the delay! The Android vs. Apple iOS Security Showdown from Tom Eston
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It’s not too late to register for my webinar on July 12th: Android vs. Apple iOS Security Showdown. I’ll be taking a entertaining look at the current security posture of both platforms. I’ll be battling the Apple App Store vs. Google Play, device updates, MDMs, developer controls, security features and the current slew of vulnerabilities for both
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This week I co-presented “Smart Bombs: Mobile Vulnerability and Exploitation” with John Sawyer and Kevin Johnson at OWASP AppSec DC. We talked about the some of the current problems facing mobile applications such as flaws found in the OWASP Mobile Top 10 and various privacy issues. We also talked about how you go about testing
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Below are links over on SlideShare to the latest version of my ever evolving presentation “Attacking & Defending Apple iOS Devices in the Enterprise”. This is the version I presented at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit a few weeks ago. I include information on iOS 5, the latest jailbreaks at the time (this has
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During the keynote at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit here in Nashville this morning Rafal Los (aka: Wh1t3Rabbit) talked about a new passcode bypass vulnerability going around in the latest version of iOS (5.1). Basically how it’s supposed to work is by opening up the camera on the lock screen you go to the photo
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I’ll be presenting “Attacking and Defending Apple iOS Devices in the Enterprise” Monday, March 12 @ 10am. I’ve got a bunch of new content about iOS 5, iCloud and the latest attacks on these devices. This is the inaugural event for SANS and I’m proud to be part of it! More information can be found
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Apple mobile devices are among the most popular gadgets today. In fact, Apple reports that 250 million iOS devices have been sold and 18 million apps downloaded. I often find that, while the popularity of these devices increases, many don’t understand the basic security features that Apple makes available to them. Some of you may
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Last week I spoke at the Central Ohio ISSA Conference about Attacking and Defending Apple IOS Devices. This talk was based on information gathered from several of the mobile pentests that I conducted at SecureState. I’ll be working on more research that will be going into an white paper that I will hopefully be releasing
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So the hard drive on my wife’s one year old MacBook has officially started to kick the bucket. Random crashes, slow performance and lots of errors like this in the system log: disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED). Yup, we have bad blocks..all indicating imminent drive “FAIL”. I have AppleCare on the MacBook so I call them up
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