Pre-NDC-TechTown Meetup

We are very excited for this pre NDC TechTown user group meeting. We have two speakers this time. Their talks are very different so there should be something for everyone!

Our first speaker will be Björn Fahller.

Title: Phoenix?

Abstract:
I burnt out. It was bad. It was bad for years. I'm recovering, though. Worst is that in hindsight I sort of saw it coming. Chances are that some of you are heading that way too, and I hope that by telling you what I went through and didn't understand, you'll be better prepared to stop a destructive spiral earlier, for yourself and/or for friends and colleagues.

And our second speaker will be Ole André V. Ravnås

Title: Unlocking secrets of proprietary software using Frida

Abstract:
Ever wanted to understand the internals of an application running on your desktop or smartphone? Want to know what data is passed to a particular crypto function? Then Frida is for you!
Frida is a powerful and modern binary instrumentation framework which makes it easy to hook and trace arbitrary functions within target executables, and otherwise explore their functionality. Some similar tools include cycript, Introspy, Snoop-it. What really makes Frida shine is the rapid prototyping enabled through the use of its first-class scripting.

Frida has many, many applications:

• application pen testing
• network tracing
• fuzzing, error/fault injection
• memory dumping
• anti-jailbreak/root detection and evasion
• custom developer tools
• pokemon cheats

It it also very portable, supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX.

This talk will introduce Frida and show how it can be used to aid in analysis of binary applications. It will be packed with demos.