Excel (and Office apps) Kills the Citrix (or Terminal Services) Star

March 22, 2012 (at 1:30 p.m.) in Attack & Research

Microsoft Office (and Excel) are common applications in big companies and in a big amount of cases they are published through Terminal Services or Citrix. However, securing that environment against malicious users is very complicated. In this talk you’ll see a lot of demos hacking Citrix and Terminal Services using Excel… and maybe you’ll be scared after having seen this session.

Chema Alonso

Chema Alonso, is one of the most prominent names regarding Computer Security and hacking in the world. Ph.D in Information Security, Computer and Systems Engineer, he graduated from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid where he was honored as Ambassador. He has been awarded as a Most Valuable Professional in Enterprise Security by Microsoft. Before getting into Telefonica to manage the new innovative company “Eleven Paths” focus in creating security technologies, he was working Informatica64 to create FOCA, Evil FOCA, Dust RSS, or publishing hacking papers such as Connection String Parameter Pollution or Blind LDAP Injection Techniques.