Blackhat & Sensepost

[Alfred Huger <ah () securityfocus com>]

All,

I recently returned from Blackhat 2005 in Las Vegas. The last BH I had 
attended was in 2001 so I was unsure about the quality to expect at this 
one. While I did not get to as many tracks as I would have liked I did 
find that ones I made it to were excellent. You can view the content at:

http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-media-archives/bh-multi-media-archives.html#USA-2005

This may not beat going in person but its still some very good material.

One talk in particular I attended which I really enjoyed was given by 
Roelof Temmingh of Sensepost and is definitely worth taking a look at. In 
his talk he went over their tool BiDiBLAH and the methodology it uses when 
assessing a network. Very interesting tool and possibly the most 
comprehensive footprinting system for pen-testing I've ever seen.

The tool itself lives at:

http://www.sensepost.com/garage_portal.html#Tools

Regards,
-al


Alfred Huger
Symantec Corp.

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