November 16
13:00 — 14:00
Violation of the most valuable: attacks on license managers
It is conventional wisdom that the right approach to doing things is to «Trust
but verify». However, corporate solutions often use only the former part of this
principle. Third-party code, specifically a license manager (a small
software or USB token), can create a huge security problem for otherwise
exceptionally well protected corporate systems. Last year, the Kaspersky Lab ICS
CERT team analyzed a hardware-based licensing solution — HASP tokens
by Gemalto. This time, we will talk about our latest research into the
popular Flexnet solution by Flexera. What we found included logical DoS,
logical LPE, RCE, that sort of thing... We will show how these
three-letter abbreviations can get the best of even the most secure corporate
or financial systems, industrial automation systems, etc.