HTML5 goodness at BlackHat Abu Dhabi this week

Just three more days to go for my 'Attacking with HTML5' talk at BlackHat Abu Dhabi. In addition to covering some of the interesting HTML5 attacks already released during 2010 by myself and other researchers, it has two new sections - HTML5 based port scanning and HTML5 Botnets. I would be talking about a new way to perform JavaScript based port scans that gives very accurate results. How accurate? you can determine if the remote port is open/closed/filtered - that accurate. I am also going to release a tool called JSRecon that would perform port and network scans by using these techniques. Under HTML5 botnets I am going to talk about how you could send spam mails, perform a DDoS attack on a website and perform distributed cracking of hashes at incredible speeds - all using JavaScript. I am also going to release Ravan - a web based tool to perform distributed cracking of hashes in a legitimate way. I am pretty happy with the way Ravan has shaped up and am very excited to see how folks react to it. Initial reactions have been good. The whole point of the talk is that I am NOT bypassing any of the restrictions placed by the browser sandbox but instead am working well inside those restrictions - its just that the sandbox has got a whole lot looser :)

The tools and details would be online next week when I am back from Abu Dhabi. Stay tuned!