SPIguard Blog
March 2010 CIPS-SIG Meeting
The CIPS Vancouver Security SIG “wargames” meeting was held at Langara college. There were hacking presentations on browser vulnerabilities and cracking WPA.
The browser vulnerabilities presentation, by Travis Gamble and James Bayne from the Fraser Health Authority, covered the propensity of people to click on links in emails and using the Java VM and Metasploit to upload a malicious payload. The payload would then open a connection back to the hacker on port 443, essentially giving control of the computer to the hacker.
The WPA cracking demonstration was presented by Rui Pereira and illustrated the use of utilities from the Backtrack LiveCD to analyze wifi traffic and break shorter WPA pre-shared keys.
Both the presentations illustrated the importance of securing commonly used technologies.
