Mayhem Blog

With digital convenience there’s often a price. And if that means a bad actor can create a wireless key for your new Tesla, that price is pretty steep. At CanSecWest 2022, researcher Martin Herfurt announced a new tool,TeslaKee, which he hopes prevents wireless key attacks from happening.

Is hacking a crime? The US Justice Dept says it will no longer prosecute good-faith security researchers, but what constitutes good-faith security research? Bryan McAninch (Aph3x) talks about his organization, Hacking Is Not A Crime, and the ethical line it draws on various hacking activities.

After hearing a talk, a Dallas-based hacker set out to find out what was going on inside the smart meter attached to his home, and what he found was surprising.

Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? Well, nothing’s impossible. But how might it actually happen? And how might we defend ourselves? Tom Van Norman, co-founder of the ICS Village, joins The Hacker Mind to share the group’s upcoming plans for RSAC and DEF CON.

Should infosec now be considered vocational training just like becoming an electrician or a plumber? How else should we address the skills gap in infosec? In this episode, Sonny Sandelius, Assistant Director of the SANS workforce programs, talks about his organization’s programs that recruit people from outside the normal computer science backgrounds.

Hackers often make it look easy when in fact they started with no plan and were just following their curiosity, going down paths erratically just like a rabbit. Researchers Nir Ohfeld and Sagi Tzadik join The Hacker Mind to talk about their presentation at Black Hat Europe 2021 on the ChaosDB vulnerability within the Jupyter Notebook within CosmosDB in Microsoft Azure.

Can you hack an airplane? A satellite in orbit? Turns out that you can. And the fact that hackers are thinking about this now is a very good thing. Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government together to work through issues.

In the book The Art of Invisibility, I challenged my co-author, Kevin Mitnick, to document the steps needed to become invisible online. Turns out, there are a lot. In this episode, I'm going to discuss how hard it is to be absolutely invisible online. How there are always breadcrumbs...

In the last episode, we only talked about fuzz testing crypto. In this episode, we're going to talk more generally about hacking crypto.