ARC Forum Event

The ARC Advisory Group invited me to participate in one of the security panels at the annual ARC Forum this week in Orlando. It’s an event I always wanted to check out so I spoke and attended. Here are some brief thoughts from the event. The best part of the...

S4x15 Video – Introducing IBAL for IDA Pro

Digital Bond Labs has been using the IDA Pro API to extend it and make it even more useful for gray / black box testing. At S4x15 Reid Wightman, who heads up the Labs, introduced the first IDA Binary Analysis Library (IBAL) that are released for public consumption on...

S4x15 Video – Efficiently Testing Large Numbers of HART DTMs

https://vimeo.com/118627217/ Alexander Bolshev of Digital Security in Russia gave a great talk at S4x14 on exploiting vulnerabilities in the HART protocol and devices. His latest research is testing a large number of field devices accessible via the...

The bots will find you

I thought I would write a quick post to share some interesting web logs. I set up a very temporary server to make the CANBus Hacking class materials available for attendees. The server was available for about a week and not connected to anything or linked from...

S4x15 Video – Remote Control Automobiles

S4 in January is a great way to start off a new year. This year I had a session entitled “Remote Control Automobiles” where I analyzed an OBD-II dongle from Progressive that is designed to track vehicle usage for insurance purposes. It’s a...

Time to Get Progressive With ICS / IoT Cyber Security

Today we posted the video of Corey Thuen’s S4x15 Technical Session on the insecure by design Progressive Snapshot dongle. Progressive responded with a statement to a Forbes reporter: if an individual has credible evidence of a potential vulnerability...

ICS vendors still falling short on security response

While at S4, Digital Bond Labs had a security advisory published by ICS-CERT (see ICSA-15-013-03).  One thing that we tried to do differently with releasing information on the issue this time around was to reach out to vendors that were obviously using...

S4x15 Video – The Pragmatic Pwn of ICS

Bryan Singer and Lily Glick start off the S4 Technical Sessions with a great presentation they named The Pragmatic Pwn of ICS. They focus on the engineering aspects of a cyber attack and the defense of a process using a distillation column (making 80...