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Podcast: DEF CON 22 [Materials] Speeches from the Hacker Convention.
Episode: Brady Bloxham - Getting Windows to Play with Itself: A Hacker's Guide to Windows API Abuse
Description: Slides here: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Bloxham/DEFCON-22-Brady-Bloxham-Windows-API-Abuse-UPDATED.pdf
Getting Windows to Play with Itself: A Hacker's Guide to Windows API Abuse
Brady Bloxham PRINCIPAL SECURITY CONSULTANT, SILENT BREAK SECURITY
Windows APIs are often a blackbox with poor documentation, taking input and spewing output with little visibility on what actually happens in the background. By analyzing (and abusing) the underlying functionality of these seemingly benign APIs, we can effectively manipulate Windows into performing stealthy custom attacks bypassing the latest in protective defenses. In this talk, we’ll get Windows to play wi...