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...

Gone in six seconds? Exploiting car alarms

Key relay attacks against keyless entry vehicles are well known. Many 3rd party car alarm vendors market themselves as solutions to this. We have shown that fitting these alarms can make your vehicle EVEN LESS SECURE! These alarms can expose you to hijack, may allow your engine to be stopped whil...

Black Hat Talks Taking Hacking to Another Level

The world moves fast, but much of the world of vulnerability research and exploitation has been stuck in stasis for the last few years. Much of the focus has been on memory-corruption vulnerabilities, application-level bugs and using Java and Flash to get around exploit mitigations and other...