Interact with the security community
CanSecWest, the world's most advanced conference focusing on applied digital security, is about bringing the industry luminaries together in a relaxed environment which promotes collaboration and social networking. The conference lasts for three days and features a single track of thought provoking presentations, each prepared by an experienced professional and talented educator who is at the cutting edge of his or her field. We give preference to new and innovative material, highlighting important, emergent technologies, techniques, or best industry practices.
The conference is single track, with one hour presentations over the duration beginning at 9:00 a.m. The registration fee includes the catered meals, and there will be a vendor display and lounge/eating area, where wireless internet access will be available (as well as in the speaking theater).
Important Note:
BOTH the Marriotts across the street from each other are now sold out as is the
Pallisades. But not to worry, we have a large block reserved
with discounted rates at the Sutton Place hotel on Burrard Street a few blocks
away.This hotel is very nice and is very popular with all the
film productions in town. Quote the group code VC080325CAN
or the group name CanSecWest to get the discounted rate.
Sutton Place Hotel
845 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2K6, Canada
(604) 682-5511
2008-03-20 21:33:00 CanSecWest PWN2OWN 2008
Three targets, all patched. All in typical client configurations with
typical user configurations. You hack it, you get to keep it.
Each has a file on them and it contains the instructions and how to claim the prize.
Targets (typical road-warrior clients):
- VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10
- Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1
- MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2
This year's contest will begin on March 26th, and go during the presentation hours and breaks of the conference until March 28th. The main purpose of this contest is to present new vulnerabilities in these systems so that the affected vendor(s) can address them. Participation is open to any registered attendee of CanSecWest 2008.
Once you extract your claim ticket file from a laptop (note that doing so will involve executing code on the box, simple directory traversal style bugs are inadequate), you get to keep it. You also get to participate in 3com / Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative, with the top award for remote, pre-auth, vulnerabilities being increased this year. Fine print and details on the cash prizes are available from Tipping Point's DVLabs blog.
Quick Overview:
- Limit one laptop per contestant.
- You can't use the same vulnerability to claim more than one box, if it is a cross-platform issue.
- Thirty minute attack slots given to contestants at each box.
- Attack slots will be scheduled at the contest start by the methods selected by the judges.
- Attacks are done via crossover cable. (attacker controls default route)
- RF attacks are done offsite by special arrangement...
- No physical access to the machines.
- Major web browsers (IE, Safari, Konqueror, Firefox), widely used and deployed plugin frameworks (AIR, Silverlight), IM clients (MSN, Adium, Skype, Pigdin, AOL, Yahoo), Mail readers (Outlook, Mail.app, Thunderbird, kmail) are all in scope.
More detailed rules and fine print will be available on this site shortly.
