We are pleased to announce the date for the first CASA Distinguished Lecture in conjunction with our DFG Cluster of Excellence "CASA - Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries". In the future, selected international and national scientists will give lectures at the HGI in this format.
Mathias Payer from the EPFL/Lausanne will start on 8 March from 12 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a lecture on "Security Testing Hard to Reach Code". The lecture will take place in ID 04/445.
Mathias Payer is a security researcher and an assistant professor at the EPFL school of computer and communication sciences (IC), leading the HexHive group. His research focuses on protecting applications in the presence of vulnerabilities, with a focus on memory corruption and type violations.
Memory corruption plagues systems since the dawn of computing. Attacks have evolved alongside the development of ever stronger defenses resulting in an eternal war in memory. Despite the rise of strong mitigations such as stack cookies, ASLR, DEP, or most recently Control-Flow Integrity, exploits are still prevalent as none of these defenses offers complete protection. They develop fuzzing techniques that follow an adversarial approach, focusing on the exposed attack surface and exploring potentially reachable vulnerabilities. In this talk we will discuss two areas of hard to reach code: (i) areas of a program that are guarded through hard to satisfy checks (such as checksums or equivalence checks) and (ii) drivers that interact with peripherals.
A registration is not necessary, but the seats are limited.
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