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DEF CON 23 talks we are excited about

DEF CON 23 is right around the corner as well. I have a bias towards offense topics and hardware hacking topics, but here are the talks I’d want to learn more about:

  • Drive It Like You Hacked It: New Attacks and Tools to Wirelessly Steal Cars
  • Don’t Whisper my Chips: Sidechannel and Glitching for Fun and Profit
  • Build a free cellular traffic capture tool with a vxworks based femoto
  • How to Hack a Tesla Model S
  • HamSammich – long distance proxying over radio
  • LTE Recon and Tracking with RTLSDR
  • How to Train Your RFID Hacking Tools
  • ThunderStrike 2: Sith Strike
  • Key-Logger, Video, Mouse — How To Turn Your KVM Into a Raging Key-logging Monster
  • Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle
  • Hacking Electric Skateboards: Vehicle Research For Mortals
  • NSA Playset: JTAG Implants
  • RFIDiggity: Pentester Guide to Hacking HF/NFC and UHF RFID

Black Hat USA 2015 talks we are excited about at

Black Hat USA is coming up quickly and I’m excited to hear about all the latest research the community has been working on. I have a bias towards offense topics and hardware hacking topics, but here are the talks I’d want to learn more about:

  • Emanate Like a Boss: Generalized Covert Data Exfiltration with Funtenna
  • Take a Hacker to Work Day – How Federal Prosecutors Use the CFAA
  • Understanding and Managing Entropy Usage
  • Adventures in Femtoland: 350 Yuan for Invaluable Fun
  • Red vs Blue: Modern Active Directory Attacks Detection and Protection
  • Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle
  • Stranger Danger! What is the Risk from 3rd Party Libraries?
  • Certifi-gate: Front-Door Access to Pwning Millions of Androids
  • Breaking Access Controls with BLEKey
  • Panel: How the Wassenaar Arrangements Export Control of Intrusion Software Affects the Security Industry
  • Forging the USB Armory an Open Source Secure Flash-Drive-Sized Computer
  • ZigBee Exploited the Good the Bad and the Ugly
  • Broadcasting Your Attack: Security Testing DAB Radio in Cars
  • ThunderStrike 2: Sith Strike

Security Tools on Kickstarter

As we ourselves work in the information security industry, we are always on the lookout for new tools. There are a couple very cool security related tools on Kickstarter right now and we funded each of them. Check them out!