Binary instrumentation, in particular dynamic binary instrumentation (DBI), is a valuable tool for hackers and security experts. Most hackers/security experts use different forms of it without knowing they belong in the general category. Recently Instrumentation and DBI in particular started getting more attention in the security community (see SourceFire at BH'10 and many others) but it is still relatively unknown and not widely used.
The aim of this workshop is to help people get started on using DBI by teaching them how to write instrumentation programs using the Pin DBI engine. During the workshop simple instrumentation programs for security usages will be taught and analyzed and some will be demonstrated live. The source code will be provided under the Intel open source license. At the end of the workshop you will have an understanding of what you can use DBI for and be able to begin developing your own instrumentation programs.
Gal has been hacking since he got his hands on a computer. He started doing it professionally at age 16. Gal did work for the IDF for a short while. He later worked as an independent consultant on information security while doing a start-up. Following this he went to study and joined Intel, initially as a member of the Pin binary instrumentation engine development team and now he is leading a team doing security evaluation and research @ Intel focusing on FW and touching on SW and HW. Gal studied math and comp-sci at Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).