Friday, January 18, 2013

DEFCON 19: Hacking Google Chrome OS (w speaker)

DEFCON 19: Hacking Google Chrome OS (w speaker) Video Clips. Duration : 45.82 Mins.


Speakers: Kyle 'Kos' Osborn Application Security Specialist, WhiteHat Security | Matt Johanson Application Security Specialist, WhiteHat Security Google recently announced Chrome OS powered computers, called Chromebooks, at Google I/O and the company is getting ready to market them to businesses as well as consumers. What's different about Chrome OS and Chromebooks, other than the entire user-experience taking place exclusively in a Web browser (Google Chrome), is everything takes place in the cloud. Email, document writing, calendaring, social networking - everything. From a security perspective this means that all website and Web browser attack techniques, such as like Cross-Site Scripting, Cross-Site Request, and Clickjacking, have the potential of circumventing Chrome OS's security protections and exposing all the users data. Two members of the WhiteHat Security's Threat Research Center, Matt Johansen and Kyle Osborn, have spent months hacking away on Google's Cr-48 prototype laptops. They discovered a slew of serious and fundamental security design flaws that with no more than a single mouse-click may victimize users by: • Exposing of all user email, contacts, and saved documents. • Conduct high speed scans their intranet work and revealing active host IP addresses. • Spoofing messaging in their Google Voice account. • Taking over their Google account by stealing session cookies, and in some case do the same on other visited domains. While Chrome OS and Chromebooks ...

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