Shane Macaulay will present on his style of code hooking at DEF CON 2016 in Las Vegas. The use cases for hooking code execution are abundant and this topic is very expansive. EhTracing (pronounced ATracing) is a technique that allows monitoring/altering of code execution at a high rate with several distinct advantages.
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About Shane Macaulay (aka K2)
Shane Macaulay likes to poke around at security cyber stuff, writing tools and exploits to get an understanding of what’s easy, hard, and fun/profit! He’s written and contributed to books, papers, and spent time at security conferences over the years. Shane currently works with IOActive and enjoys a diverse and challenging role analyzing some of the most complex software systems around.
About DEF CON
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