The Joy of Pwning

title	The Joy of Pwning
date	2017-10-26
authors	Sophia D'Antoine
conference	Securing Your Path 2017
resources	label path Slides joy_of_pwning.pdf label url Manticore https://github.com/trailofbits/manticore label url McSema https://github.com/trailofbits/mcsema

Sophia D'Antoine is a security engineer at Trail of Bits in NYC and a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a regular speaker at security conferences around the world, including RECon, HITB, and CanSecWest. Her present work includes techniques for automated software exploitation and software obfuscation using program analysis. She spends too much time playing CTF and going to noise concerts.

This talk builds on three stages of her technical career growth, what makes them interesting and how they helped her succeed in growing as an expert. These stages are:

1. Hacker Training - The world of Wargames & CTFs
2. Security Engineering & Tooling - Why do it if you can make a program do it
3. Interdisciplinary Research - Turns out security research applies to everything

Resources

• CTF Field Guide and pwnable.kr
• Not So Smart Contracts and Ethersplay