Blackhat talk: Router exploitation by Felix “FX” Lindner
July 30th, 2009
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I arrived late, but talk hadn’t started unfortunately it did mean standing room only.
FX had a cool feature in his presentation; every slide was accompanied by a BlackHat-O-Meter. Works like the base and acid scale. Corporate suite-and-tie types should stay with slides that have the meter all the way on the top, CISSP should be able to grasp the details of slides that are ranked somewhere in the middle, real Hackers could also grasp bottom of the scale slides.
FX’s first words are comforting, there is not so much real world router ownage going on. Mis-configuration, insider attacks, etc. are much more common.
However, infrastructures are what you want to own, so why don’t we see this more often? Because practical exploits are hard.