Research

Talks

Conference presentations, with slides where we’re allowed to share them.

2023

2013

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XNU Spelunking or Fuzzing the kernel inside your kernel

RECon · Montreal, Canada

XNU, the OS X kernel, is made up of a somewhat unholy marriage of the monolithic BSD kernel and the CMU mach microkernel. Because of this marriage, in addition to BSD syscalls, XNU provides additional …

video Jesse D'Aguanno

2012

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NFC Hacking: The Easy Way

DEF CON 20 · Las Vegas, NV

Eddie Lee presents NFCProxy, a proof-of-concept tool that demonstrates insecurities in near field communication and contactless credit cards. The tool is also useful for NFC protocol analysis in …

slidestool Eddie Lee

2011

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Mach Shellcodes and Injectable OS X Rootkits

RECon · Montreal, Canada

Using the Mach interfaces in the OS X kernel to manipulate the kernel from user space, i.e. from shellcode, to alter kernel structures. Example shellcodes are included.

slides Jesse D'Aguanno

2008

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IRK: Crafting OS X Kernel Rootkits

Black Hat USA 2008 · Las Vegas, NV

Apple’s OS X operating system has been gaining in popularity. This presentation details how to manipulate the OS X kernel in order to hide an attacker’s activities and maintain access.

slides Jesse D'Aguanno

2006

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Blackjacking: Owning the Enterprise via the BlackBerry

DEF CON 14 · Las Vegas, NV

Jesse D’Aguanno demonstrated using the trust relationship between the BlackBerry Enterprise Server infrastructure and the handhelds to bypass perimeter controls and compromise an internal …

slides Jesse D'Aguanno