DEF CON 27 retrospective: badge life redux

Kickstarter or DEF CON attendee? Be forewarned, this light overview contains some mild spoilers. If you want the purest “Da Bomb” experience with no web-based OSINT hints, read no further. I’m not revealing any earth-shattering secrets here, but figured it was worth mentioning. Also DEF CON is ov...

PTP at DEF CON 27

Here's the lowdown on our 14 DEF CON 27 talks, workshops, and panel sessions: Main Stage Track 3 Paris: Saturday 13:00 Chris Wade presents Tag-side attacks against NFC Track 2 Paris: Saturday 15:00 G Richter presents Reverse-Engineering 4g Hotspots for Fun, Bugs and Net Financial Loss Villages...

Chinese surveillance chips found in servers used by US technology giants: Report

By Waqas This can be one of one of the largest corporate spying and hardware hacking campaigns ever launched by a nation-state. Bloomberg has revealed in its recently published report that a nation-state has launched a significant supply chain attack. It is believed to be one of the largest...

Hacking an assault tank… A Nerf one

TL;DR A complex, challenging reverse and hijack of a toy tank Nerf gun camera, but the result was we got to shoot the 44Con conference organiser with it! Why A remote-controlled Nerf gun with video feed and aiming crosshairs. Who wouldn’t want to reverse the RF and firmware, with a view to...

Physics Platform - A Remote Hardware Hacking Platform

Physics platform is a tool for hardware systems e.g: raspberryPi 3B . It retrieves data passing through the network and sends it to a control panel. It works the same way as a botnet by receiving remote commands. you can imagine that as a black box. Physics hardware You can check repository of...

Ed: Physical Laptop Takeover

At 6:16PM of August 11th of 2018, during H1-702, right before the sand storm beat the shit out of the rooftop party, we managed to perform a critical attack on Ed's infrastructure. F332214 Report Summary During our analysis and reconnaissance of how Ed program worked during the h1-702 event, we...

Hacking, tracking, stealing and sinking ships

At Infosecurity Europe this year, we demonstrated multiple methods to interrupt the shipping industry, several of which haven’t been demonstrated in public before, to our knowledge. Some of these issues were simply through poor security hygiene on board, but others were linked to the protocols us...

cgPwn - Cyber Grand Pwnage Box

A lightweight VM for hardware hacking, RE fuzzing, symEx, exploiting etc and wargaming tasks. This is a Ubuntu VM tailored for hardware hacking, RE and Wargaming. Tools included Pwndbg Pwntools Binwalk Radare2 Capstone, Unicorn and Keystone Engines Qira Timeless Debugger AFL Valgrind , VGdb...

Firmware vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attack using SD Memory cards

How is it possible to exploit SD Card, USB stick and other mobile devices for hacking? Another interesting hack was presented at the Chaos Computer Congress 30C3, in Hamburg, Germany. The researchers demonstrated how it is possible to hack the microcontroller inside every SD and MicroSD flash car...

China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan Wi-Fi devices to serve malware

We have discussed many times in our stories the network of Intelligent devices, their capabilities and the possibilities that cyber criminals could exploit them for illegal activities. Hidden chips are used by cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers to infiltrate company networks and...

Joe Grand on Hardware Hacking and the JTAGulator

Dennis Fisher talks with Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio about his current project, the JTAGulator, which helps hardware hackers find the OCD connections on devices. They also discuss Joe’s hardware-hacking background and the current resurgence of hardware research. Download: digitalunderground123...

CALL FOR PAPERS - The Hackers Conference 2013

The call for papers for The Hackers Conference 2013 is now open. THC2013 is a hacker conference taking place in New Delhi, India on August 25th, 2013. The Hackers Conference is an unique event, where the best of minds in the hacking world, leaders in the information security industry and the cybe...

Electronic JukeBox - Hardware Hacking Part 1 & 2

Document Title: =============== Electronic JukeBox - Hardware Hacking Part 1 & 2 References: =========== View Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTiXldgeW4 View Part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAX4p1oMTtw Release Date: ============= 2011-06-21 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Electronic JukeBox - Hardware Hacking Part 1 & 2

Document Title: =============== Electronic JukeBox - Hardware Hacking Part 1 & 2 References: =========== View Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTiXldgeW4 View Part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAX4p1oMTtw Release Date: ============= 2011-06-21 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Joe Grand on hardware hacking

In this Network World interview at SOURCE Boston, well-known hardware hacker Joe ‘Kingpin’ Grand talks about lessons rom the “Prototype This” show, the changing face of security research and his upcoming vulnerability assessment work. The video also includes an interview with Dan Kaminsky about h...