Hacking Washington DC traffic control systems
This is a short blog post, because I’ve talked about this topic in the past. I want to let people know that I have the honor of presenting at DEF CON on Friday, August 8, 2014, at 1:00 PM. My presentation is entitled “Hacking US (and UK, Australia, France, Etc.) Traffic Control Systems”. I hope to see you all there. I’m sure you will like the presentation. I am frustrated with Sensys Networks (vulnerable devices vendor) lack of cooperation, but I realize that I should be thankful. This…
DC22 Talk: Killing the Rootkit
By Shane Macaulay I’ll be at DefCon22 a to present information about a high assurance tool/technique that helps to detect hidden processes (hidden by a DKOM type rootkit). It works very well with little bit testing required (not very “abortable” http://takahiroharuyama.github.io/blog/2014/04/21/memory-forensics-still-aborted/). The process also works recursively (detect host and guest processes inside a host memory dump). Plus, I will also be at our IOAsis (http://ioasislasvegas.eventbrite.com/?aff=PRIOASIS) , so come through for a discussion and a demo.
A Survey of Remote Automotive Attack Surfaces
By looking at each car’s remote attack surface, internal network architecture, and computer controlled features, we are able to draw some conclusions about the suitability of the vehicle to remote attack. This doesn’t mean that the most susceptible looking isn’t in fact quite secure (i.e. coded very securely) or that the most secure looking isn’t in fact trivially exploitable, but it does provide some objective measure of the security of a large number of vehicles that wouldn’t be possible to examine in detail without a massive effort. It also provides…
Belkin WeMo Home Automation Vulnerabilities
The WeMo devices connect to the Internet using the STUN/TURN protocol. This gives users remote control of the devices and allows them to perform firmware updates from anywhere in the world. A generated GUID is the primary source of access control. WeMo also uses a GPG-based, encrypted firmware distribution scheme to maintain device integrity during updates. Unfortunately, attackers can easily bypass most of these features due to the way they are currently implemented in the WeMo product line. The command for performing firmware updates is initiated over the Internet from…
Steam Client Creates World-writable Shell Script
While performing a routine world-writable file scan, one of IOActive’s consultants discovered that the Steam Client for Mac OS X creates world-writable shell scripts when installing games.
OleumTech Wireless Sensor Network Vulnerabilites
OleumTech has manufactured industrial wireless solutions for almost 15 years, providing visibility to disparate assets for major Oil & Gas producers for near real-time optimization decisions, resource deployment, and regulatory compliance. OleumTech also manufacturers industrial automation systems that represents the new paradigm of remote monitoring and control for industries, such as Oil & Gas, Refining, Petro-chemical, Utilities, and Water/Wastewater. In June 2013, IOActive Labs reported four critical vulnerabilities in OleumTech’s wireless sensor network to ICS-CERT. To date, IOActive Labs is not aware of any fixes released by OleumTech.
Video: Building Custom Android Malware for Penetration Testing
By Robert Erbes @rr_dot In this presentation, I provide a brief overview of the Android environment and a somewhat philosophical discussion of malware. I also take look at possible Android attacks in order to help you pentest your organization’s defenses against the increasingly common Bring Your Own Device scenario. http://youtu.be/68D7CjkgYt8
Glass Reflections in Pictures + OSINT = More Accurate Location
By Alejandro Hernández – @nitr0usmx Disclaimer: The aim of this article is to help people to be more careful when taking pictures through windows because they might reveal their location inadvertently. The technique presented here might be used for many different purposes, such as to track down the location of the bad guys, to simply know in which hotel is that nice room or by some people, to follow the tracks of their favorite artist. All of the pictures presented here were posted by the owners on…
Hacking US (and UK, Australia, France, etc.) Traffic Control Systems
Probably many of you have watched scenes from “Live Free or Die Hard” (Die Hard 4) where “terrorist hackers” manipulate traffic signals by just hitting Enter or typing a few keys. I wanted to do that! I started to look around, and while I couldn’t exactly do the same thing (too Hollywood style!), I got pretty close. I found some interesting devices used by traffic control systems in important US cities, and I could hack them 🙂 These devices are also used in cities in the UK, France, Australia, China, etc.,…
Hacking the Java Debug Wire Protocol – or – “How I met your Java debugger”
By Christophe Alladoum – @_hugsy_ TL;DR: turn any open JDWP service into reliable remote code execution (exploit inside) <plagiarism> Kids, I’m gonna tell you an incredible story. </plagiarism> This is the story of how I came across an interesting protocol during a recent code review engagement for IOActive and turned it into a reliable way to execute remote code. In this post, I will explain the Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) and why it is interesting from a penetration tester’s point of view. I will…