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StegoFS

James Shewmaker

James Shewmaker explores stegofs at DEF CON 16, examining emergency-systems and practical defenses.

Summary

Architecture and Background

DEF CON 16 - James Shewmaker: StegoFS This talk will reintroduce classic steganographic techniques to use with serializing, watermarking, or stashing your data in the latest Internet meme. Why not let everyone who is forwarding yet another painful nut-shot AFHV clip store your data for you?

Vulnerability Analysis

We will create a simple filesystem that is robust enough to survive conversion, and building a structure to organize the data, focusing on indirection and fault tolerance. Jim has over 15 years experience in IT, primarily developing appliances for automation and security for broadcast radio, Internet, and satellite devices.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

He is one of the first GIAC Platinum certified Malware (GSM) experts and a SANS Institute Instructor. Jim's primary focus areas are investigations, penetration testing, and analysis.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

He is actively contributing to SANS courseware and occasional FreeBSD port contributor. For copies of the slides and additional materials please see the DEF CON 16 Archive here:

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