Lock and Code S1Ep16: Investigating digital vulnerabilities with Samy Kamkar

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Samy Kamkar, chief security officer and co-founder of Open Path, about the digital vulnerabilities in our physical world. If you look through a recent...

On PoisonTap, Internet of Things Regulation, and Ransomware

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including this week’s House hearing on the Internet of Things, Samy Kamkar’s PoisonTap tool, and Windows 10’s ransomware protections. Show notes: Regulation May Be Best Answer to IoT Insecurity PoisonTap Steals Cookies, Drops Backdoors on...

Wireless Keyloggers Hidden in USB Wall Chargers, FBI Warns

A private industry notification sent by the FBI in late April to its business partners warns of the risks associated with KeySweeper, a tool released in January 2015 by noted hardware hacker and researcher Samy Kamkar. Sixteen months ago, Kamkar released the source code and instructions on how to...

OwnStar Attack Now Aimed at BMW, Chrysler, Mercedes Cars

The OwnStar attack that hacker Samy Kamkar revealed late last month can be used against not only GM vehicles, but cars manufactured by Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Chrysler, as well. The attack allows Kamkar to intercept the traffic from nearby mobile phones that have specific apps open that control...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Rifle Hack, Stagefright, OwnStar, and Black Hat 2015

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the hacked sniper rifle, the huge Android bug in Stagefright, Samy Kamkar’s OwnStar device, and the joy and pain of next week’s Black Hat conference. Download: digitalunderground215.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Samy Kamkar's ProxyGambit Picks Up for Defunct ProxyHam

Without fail in the weeks leading up to Black Hat and DEF CON, there are inevitably talks that are either pulled by organizers, cancelled by presenters, or strong suggestions are made that the talks don’t happen. This year’s first casualty, Ben Caudill’s scheduled DEF CON demonstration of ProxyHa...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on Facebook's Security Moves, GitHub's Audit and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss Facebook’s moves toward encrypted notifications and SHA-2 usage, the audit of GitHub SSH keys and the awesome OpenSesame garage door hack from Samy Kamkar. Download: digitalunderground206.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

How to Skyjack Drones for $400

UPDATE–The skies may soon be full of drones–some run by law enforcement agencies, others run by intelligence agencies and still others delivering novels and cases of diapers from Amazon. But a new project by a well-known hacker Samy Kamkar may give control of some drones to anyone with $400 and a...

Evercookie Creator: FTC Cookie Inquiry Would Be Too Narrow

Samy Kamkar has always been prescient. He first gained notoriety by showing how nascent social networks like MySpace could be used to spread malware rapidly among a population of millions now billions of users. His worm for MySpace, dubbed the ‘Samy Worm’ earned him a visit from law enforcement...

Q&A: Evercookie Creator Samy Kamkar

Samy Kamkar has been making quite a bit of noise lately, beginning with his release of the Evercookie earlier this month and continuing with his talk at the SecTor conference this week on novel methods for stealing users’ cookies without any browser bugs. In this interview, he discusses both of...

Researchers Find Methods to Kill Persistent 'Evercookie'

The persistent method that security researcher Samy Kamkar introduced last week for storing tracking data on a user’s machine, known as the “Evercookie,” is even more worrisome when used on mobile devices, according to another researcher’s analysis. The Evercookie is a simple method for forcing a...

New Attack Locates Web Users Via XSS, Google Data

The security researcher who created the MySpace XSS worm in 2005 has developed a technique that enables an attacker to accurately locate a Web user with GPS coordinates, without using IP-based geolocation. Samy Kamkar, the author of the infamous Samy worm that spread through MySpace, on Monday...

Infobot-0.44.5.3.txt

Advisory: Infobot 0.44.5.3 and below vulnerability Hack-X This version and versions from before were also released into the FreeBSD ports tree. Currently there is no patched version even though I emailed the author over a month ago about this and emailed the development list over a week, and them...