2.  Jurgens
van
der
Merwe
(jurgens@sensepost.com)
 Junior
analyst
with
SensePost
 Interests:
 Information
Security
 Innovative
Technologies
 Music
 Skateboarding
 etc

7.
Purpose
Interface
Speed
Value
Attack
surface
Complexity

8.
Purpose
Interface
Speed
Value
Attack
surface
Complexity

9.  Browser
Automation
Framework
for
Testing
Web
Applications
 Consists
of
3
parts
:
 Selenium
IDE
 Selenium
Remote
Control
 Selenium
Grid
 For
this
talk
we
will
focus
on
the
core
library
and
functionality
of
Selenium
Framework

10.  Automation
 The
ability
to
trigger
sequential
events
without
the
need
of
manual
interaction
 Harvesting
 The
ability
to
gather
large
datasets
of
common
objects
over
a
period
of
time
 Extraction
 The
ability
to
extract
key
elements
from
an
entity
in
order
to
obtain
valuable
information
regarding
a
specific
target

11. Over
700
billion
minutes
a
month
=
19865
lifetimes

13.  Behind
the
‘Sannie’
experiment
 Purpose
 Showing
that
bots
can
act
like
humans
too.
 Goal
 Following
logical
pathways
to
mimic
human
interaction.
 Demo

14.  The
mass
friendship
harvest
 Purpose
 Harvest
user
relationships
 Goal
 Determining
the
theory
behind:

{
friends
of
a
friend,
of
a
friend,
of
a
friend,
of
a
friend,
of
a
friend,
of
a
friend,
of
a
friend,
of
a
friend,
of
a
friend….
}

15.  The
Facebook
Profiler
 Purpose
 Creating
my
own
personal
address
book
 Goal
 Extracting
user
information
from
facebook
profiles
 Demo

16.  Web
Simulator
 Supports
various
browsers
like
 Mozilla
Firefox
 Google
Chrome
 Opera
 Safari
 Internet
Explorer
 Interacts
with
the
Document
Object
Model
(DOM)

17.  Latency!!!
 Super
fast
ZA
internet.
 Having
to
wait
for
the
web
element
to
be
completely
constructed
within
the
DOM.
 Complexity
of
the
application
 Understanding
the
logic
behind
the
application.

18.  Selenium
is
a
cool
technology
for
interacting
with
any
Web
2.0
application.
 Impersonates
human-­‐like
interaction
with
a
web
application
by
following
logical
paths.
 Ability
to
rely
on
the
browser’s
DOM
rather
than
the
source
of
a
web
page
when
extracting
information.

Allow
you
to
actually
see
the
browser
execute
your
code
and
navigate
through
the
targeted
application.
 The
ability
to
test
the
functionality
of
the
web
application
through
various
browsers.

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Questions
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