The Software Colander - Holes in Messaging
Andy Clark, Operations Director, Entegrity Solutions Corp, UKTechnical Stream - Wednesday 1 November 2000
In 1997 Vince Gallo of Entegrity Solutions postulated a new class of attack on computers using standard messaging protocols to enable covert control of a target machine. At the time this approach seemed technically feasible, but had not been developed and tested. In the intervening years the attack has been developed and verified as effective. Defence strategies and techniques have also been developed.
With growing awareness of Information Warfare techniques and targets, commercial companies need to understand the techniques that can be employed to covertly penetrate their organisations IT infrastructure. This talk will demonstrate covert messaging attacks in real-time and discuss the measures necessary to protect against them.
