Router Exploitation

Architecture and Background

Router Exploitation FX of Phenoelit, Head, Recurity Labs GmbH Exploitation of active networking equipment has its own history and challenges. This session will take you through the full spectrum of possible attacks, what they yield and how the art of exploitation in that particular field evolved over the recent past to its present state.

Vulnerability Analysis

We will cover attacks on Cisco equipment and compare them to other specimen in the field, talk about the challenges you face to get a simple shell on such devices and what to actually do with them once you made it. Felix "FX" Lindner runs Recurity Labs, a security consulting and research company in Berlin, Germany.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

FX has over 11 years experience in the computer industry, nine of them in consulting for large enterprise and telecommunication customers. He possesses a vast knowledge of computer sciences, telecommunications and software development.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

His background includes managing and participating in a variety of projects with a special emphasis on security planning, implementation, operation and testing using advanced methods in diverse technical environments. FX is well known in the computer security community and has presented his and Phenoelit's security research on Black Hat Briefings, CanSecWest, PacSec, DEFCON, Chaos Communication Congress, MEITSEC and numerous other events. His research topics included Cisco IOS, HP printers, SAP and RIM BlackBerry. Felix holds a title as State-Certified Technical Assistant for Informatics and Information Technology as well as Certified Information Systems Security Professional. For copies of the slides and additional materials please see the DEF CON 17 Archive here: