We’re delighted to announce the first speakers of next year’s Troopers edition. Looks like it’s going to be a great event again ;-).
Here we go:

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Ravishankar Borgaonkar & Kevin Redon: Femtocell: Femtostep to the Holy Grail (Attacks & Research Track)

Abstract: Femtocells are now being rolled out across the world to enhance third generation (3G) coverage and to provide assurance of always best connectivity in the 3G telecommunication networks. It acts as an access point that securely connect standard mobile handset to the mobile network operator’s core network using an existing wired broadband connection.

In this talk, we will evaluate security mechanisms used in femtocells and discuss practical & potential misuse scenarios of the same. In particular, our talk will cover:

# Femtocell and Telecom business model
# Security architecture of the femtocell
# Location verification techniques and how to beat them for free roaming calls
# Hacking of the device
-r00ting
-accessing confidential information stored on the device
-installing malicious applications on the device
-accessing mobile network operator’s infrastructural elements
# Possible countermeasures
# Demo

Bios: Ravi received his joint master degree in Security and mobile computing from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and from Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). After finishing his master degree, he works as a researcher in the the Security in Telecommunications department at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs) and is pursuing his PhD studies. His research themes are related to data security challenges in new telecommunication technologies. His research interest includes Wireless networking security (in particular, security in 2G/3G networks), M2M security, and malware & botnet analysis.
Kevin received bachelor of Computing from Napier University Edinburgh, Scotland. He is now finishing his Master degree in Computing with specialization in Communication Systems at the Technical University of Berlin. This is also where he joined the Security in Telecommunication work group in cooperation with the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs). His research interest includes network security, in particular telecommunication network as GSM/UMTS, peer to peer networks, and smart cards.

Mariano Nuñez Di Croce: Your crown jewels online – Attacks to SAP Web Applications (Defense & Management Track)

Abstract: “SAP platforms are only accessible internally”. You may have heard that several times. While that was true in many organizations more than a decade ago, the current situation is completely different: driven by modern business requirements, SAP systems are getting more and more connected to the Internet. This scenario drastically increases the universe of possible attackers, as remote malicious parties can try to compromise the organization’s SAP platform in order to perform espionage, sabotage and fraud attacks.
SAP provides different Web interfaces, such as the Enterprise Portal, the Internet Communication Manager (ICM) and the Internet Transaction Server (ITS). These components feature their own security models and technical infrastructures, which may be prone to specific security vulnerabilities. If exploited, your business crown jewels can end up in the hands of cyber criminals.
Through many live demos, this talk will explain how remote attackers may compromise the security of different SAP Web components and what you can do to avoid it. In particular, an authentication-bypass vulnerability affecting “hardened” SAP Enterprise Portal implementations will be detailed.

Bio: Mariano Nuñez Di Croce is the Director of Research and Development at Onapsis. Mariano has a long experience as a Senior Security Consultant, mainly involved in security assessments and vulnerability research. He has discovered critical vulnerabilities in SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and IBM applications.
Mariano leads the SAP Security Team at Onapsis, where he works hardening and assessing the security of critical SAP implementations in world-wide organizations. He is the author and developer of the first open-source SAP & ERP Penetration Testing Frameworks and has discovered more than 50 vulnerabilities in SAP applications. Mariano is also the lead author of the “SAP Security In-Depth” publication and founding member of BIZEC, the Business Security community.
Mariano has been invited to hold presentations and trainings in many international security conferences such as BlackHat USA/EU, HITB Dubai/EU, DeepSec, Sec-T, Hack.lu, Ekoparty and Seacure.it as well as to host private trainings for Fortune-100 companies and defense contractors. He has also been interviewed and quoted in mainstream media such as Reuters, IDG, NY Times, PCWorld and others.

Friedwart Kuhn & Michael Thumann: Integration of the New German ID Card (nPA) in Enterprise Environments – Prospects, Costs & Threats (Defense & Management Track)

Abstract: The talk will cover the new nPA and related software like the AusweisApp with a special focus on possible use cases in the enterprise (“have the government run your corporate PKI” ;-)). Besides outlining prerequisites for an integration of the nPA within an organization, it will also answer questions about legal aspects that have to be considered and threats and risks that must be controlled and mitigated. Furthermore we will give a short overview about our own security research of the AusweisApp.

Bios: Friedwart Kuhn is a senior security consultant, head of the ERNW PKI team and co-owner of ERNW. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and has published a number of whitepapers and articles. Besides the daily consulting and assessment work, Windows enterprise security and aspects of technical and organizational PKI related topics are areas of special interest for him. In his (sparse) free time Friedwart likes to play music and loves literature.
Michael Thumann is Chief Security Officer and head of the ERNW “Research” and “Pen-Test” teams. He has published security advisories regarding topics like ‘Cracking IKE Preshared Keys’ and buffer overflows in web servers/VPN software/VoIP software. Michael enjoys sharing his self-written security tools (e.g. ‘tomas—a Cisco Password Cracker’, ikeprobe—IKE PSK Vulnerability Scanner’ or ‘dnsdigger—a dns information gathering tool’) and his experience with the community. Next to numerous articles and papers he wrote the first German Pen-Test Book that has become a recommended reading at German universities. In addition to his daily pentesting tasks he is a regular conference speaker and has also contributed exploit code to the Metasploit Framework. With more than 10 years of experience in computer security Michael’s main interest is to uncover vulnerabilities and security design flaws from the network to the application level.

Chema Alonso: I FOCA a .mil domain (Attacks & Research Track)

Abstract: FOCA is a tool to help you in the fingerprinting phase among a pentesting work. This tool helps you to find lost data, hidden information in public documents, fingerprinting servers, workstations, etc.
This talk will provide an extensive demo as a good example of the results which can be obtained using FOCA. The target domain? You’ll see in Troopers…

Graeme Neilson: Tales from the Crypt0 (Defense & Management Track)

Abstract: Does the thought of SSL, HTTPS and S/MIME make you squeamish? Does PKI make you want to scream? Does encrypting data at rest make you want to bury yourself alive?
Cryptography is an important part of most web applications these days, and developers and admins need to understand how, why and when to employ the best and appropriate techniques to secure their servers, applications, data and the livelihoods of their users. Join Graeme Neilson (Aura Software Security) for a series of scary stories of real-world crypto failures and to learn how to do it the right way (with lots of code samples).

Bio: Graeme Neilson is lead security researcher at Aura Software Security based in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally from Scotland he has 10 years of
security experience. Graeme specialises in secure networks, network infrastructure, reverse engineering and cryptanalysis. Graeme is a regular presenter at international security conferences and has spoken at conferences in Australia, Europe and the US including Black Hat.

More talks to follow soon. See you in Heidelberg next year,

thanks

Enno