Day 3 – Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Venue: Academy for IT, University of Johannesburg, Kingsway Avenue

08:30–09:00

Registration            

Workshop: Hands-on ethical hacking and software security

Brief description: The workshop deals with current issues in information security. During the workshop, the participant will have hands-on experience doing software exploits, after which each software exploit will be explained with its associated countermeasure.

This workshop is based on the talk presented at ISSA 2010 by Dominic White, about online privacy and how easy it is to obtain a person's information online. The workshop will also cover how to mine personal information online and provide suggestions on how to protect your online identity.

Workshop facilitator: Francois Mouton and Ivan Burke

Information and Computer Security Architectures Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria

09:00-10:30

Workshop session 1: Password authoring and steganography.

10:30-11:00 

Tea 

11:00-12:30

Workshop session 2: Mining personal information.

12:30-13:30

Lunch 

13:30-15:00

Workshop session 3:  Practical examples of how Mechanize and PHP can be used to automate the task of tracking an online person. A basic introduction to Maltego and how it can be used as a tool to harvest personal data is also provided.

15:00-15:30

Tea

15:30-17:00

Workshop session 4:  Discussion on how to protect your personal information and how the gathered information can be utilized given a tool such as SET (the Social Engineering Toolkit)