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Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 4
Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory, how to extract file system data from the device, and how to modify the data we've extracted. In this post, we'll cover how to gain root access...
Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 3
Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory and how to extract file system data from the device. In this post, we'll cover how to modify the data we've extracted. Modify extracted file...
[Security Nation] Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygiene
!\Security Nation\ Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygienehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to renowned password security expert Jeremi Gosney about how we are all guilty of bad password...
Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 2
Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. Last week, we covered the basics of the exercise and achieving access to flash memory. In this post, we'll cover how to extract partition data. Extracting partition data The next step in our hands-on IoT hacking...
Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Part 1
Rapid7 was back this year at DEF CON 30 participating at the IoT Village with another hands-on hardware hacking exercise, with the goal of teaching attendees' various concepts and methods for IoT hacking. Over the years, these exercises have covered several different embedded device topics,...
DEF CON 30. Hacking EFBs. Engine Performance
At DEF CON 30 this year we demonstrated some vulnerabilities in electronic flight bags and the potential impact on flight safety. There’s plenty more detail of EFB security issues here. As part of the Aerospace Village at DEF CON 30, we invited people to fly our flight sim under instruction from...
Black Hat USA 2022 and DEF CON 30
Black Hat 2022 USA Briefings wrapped up this past week, along with its sister conference DEF CON 30. The DEF CON theme was a "Hacker Homecoming", and it really was a fun one. Coming back from the COVID hiatus, the conferences were enthusiastically full compared to the 2021 ghost town. Many of the...
Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup
There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp. The weeklong collection of cybersecurity conferences featured an eclectic mix of attendees to learn, network, hack and have fun. The week even included a rare Las Vegas fla...
Emergency Alert System Flaws Could Let Attackers Transmit Fake Messages
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS has warned of critical security vulnerabilities in Emergency Alert System EAS encoder/decoder devices. If left unpatched, the issues could allow an adversary to issue fraudulent emergency alerts over TV, radio, and cable networks. The August 1 advisory...
Wordfence Intelligence Launching at Black Hat 2022 in Las Vegas Next Week
Wordfence protects over 4 million websites around the world on 12,000 unique networks, and we block over 1.8 billion attacks targeting those websites every month. For years we have had a relationship with our customers that is a virtuous cycle: We receive attack reports from our customers at a ra...
Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 4, 2022) — BlackHat 2022 preview
By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. After what seems like forever and honestly has been a really long time, we’re heading back to BlackHat in-person this year. We’re excited to see a lot of old friends again to commiserate, hang out, trade stories and...
What We're Looking Forward to at Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSidesLV 2022
The week of Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSides is highly anticipated annual tradition for the cybersecurity community, a weeklong chance for security pros from all corners of the industry to meet in Las Vegas to talk shop and share what they've spent the last 12 months working on. But like many belov...
CVE-2022-27255
In Realtek eCos RSDK 1.5.7p1 and MSDK 4.9.4p1, the SIP ALG function that rewrites SDP data has a stack-based buffer overflow. This allows an attacker to remotely execute code without authentication via a crafted SIP packet that contains malicious SDP data...
[Security Nation] Daniel Crowley on Running a Cybersecurity Internship
!\Security Nation\ Daniel Crowley on Running a Cybersecurity Internshiphttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/securitynationlogo-1.jpg On the latest episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Daniel Crowley, IBM X-Force Red’s Research Director — aka Global Research Baron a title that...
Popular Attack Surfaces, August 2021: What You Need to Know
See the Updates section at the end of this post for new information as it comes to light. Whether you attended virtually, IRL, or not at all, Black Hat and DEF CON have officially wrapped, and security folks’ brains are replete with fresh information on new and some not-so-new vulnerabilities and...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Desert heat not the 1999 film This week was more quiet than normal with Black Hat USA and DEF CON, but that didn’t stop the team from delivering some small enhancements and bug fixes! We are also excited to see two new modules 15519 and 15520 from researcher Jacob Baines’ DEF CON talk Bring You...
CVE-2021-38111
The DEF CON 27 badge allows remote attackers to exploit a buffer overflow by sending an oversized packet via the NFMI Near Field Magnetic Induction protocol...
Buffer overflow
The DEF CON 27 badge allows remote attackers to exploit a buffer overflow by sending an oversized packet via the NFMI Near Field Magnetic Induction protocol...
CVE-2021-38111
The CVE-2021-38111 entry concerns the DEF CON 27 badge, which communicates over NFMI. The vulnerability is a buffer overflow caused by receiving an oversized NFMI packet, enabling remote attackers to potentially exploit the device. The CVSS metrics in the initial record show a CVSS 3.1 base score...
