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Defcon 19: Kinect + Metasploit = Kinectasploit

In this presentation from last summer’s Defcon 19 conference, Jeff Bryner, Owner of P0wnlabs.com, demonstrates how to integrate the Kinect with Metasploit. He uses the open source Blender 3D game engine to interface the Kinect hardware with Metasploit. This hack allows you to launch preassigned Metasploit attacks based upon your gestures as detected by the […]

Defcon 19: Hacking over power lines

Dave Kennedy (ReL1K) presented this talk at last summer’s Defcon 19 conference demonstrating the relative insecurity of home automation devices, such as X10, HomePlug and ZWave modules, which communicate either locally over power lines or via RF in the ISM bands. The presentation covers usage of the Teensy Arduino-based device to emulate a keyboard when […]

Derbycon/Defcon: battery firmware hacking

We use laptops everyday and as long as the battery isn’t dead we probably don’t give it much thought. It turns out that most laptop batteries contain a smart chip which controls battery charge rate and ensures safety parameters are observed among other purposes. In this video from the recently concluded Derbycon conference in Louisville, […]

Free O’Reilly webcast: Core Network Protocols

O’Reilly is offering a free webcast on “Core Network Protocols: Two techniques you need to know.” The 60 minute presentation by Bruce Hartpence will be live this Friday, October 14, 2011, at 1 PM PT. In this webcast we’ll talk about address space, the purpose of the network mask and the reasons we manipulate network […]

IM-ME jams APCO P25 digital comms

APCO Project 25 is a digital modulation protocol used by a growing number of public safety radio systems and to a limited extent by Amateur Radio Operators. APCO P25 radio transmissions are capable of being monitored by scanning receivers from Radio Shack, GRE and Uniden. That is, unless the agency monitored decides to encrypt their […]

Free webcast: OSCON 2011

OReilly is sponsoring a free webcast entitled, “OSCON 2011: Take-aways, Trends, and Highlights” on Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 10 AM PT. Presenters will discuss their observations from the recently concluded OSCON 2011 event in Portland, OR. In this event wrap-up, OSCON co-chairs Edd Dumbill, Sarah Novotny, and Laurel Ruma will identify and discuss the […]

OsmocomBB: open source GSM software

Osmocom stands for Open Source MObile COMmunications. The crew developing the OsmocomBB (baseband) software project presented the above talk at the DeepSec conference last November in Vienna, Austria. As they describe their efforts: OsmocomBB is an Free Software / Open Source GSM Baseband software implementation. It intends to completely replace the need for a proprietary […]

Video: Hackers vs makers

Are you a hacker or a maker? If you answered “yes”, then you understand the proposition of this video. Intel_Jim gave this talk at Ignite Intel in Portland, OR on July 12, 2011, publicly explaining what we already know: that true hackers and makers are people who like to tinker with gadgets to make them […]

Video: Hardware hacking for software guys

As the time for Defcon 19 nears we got to looking over last years videos and found this intro to Arduino for software guys. Dave King’s presentation is one of the better tutorials for programmers who want to learn the basics of the Arduino. An introduction for newbies, a refresher for the rest of us. […]

Free embedded systems virtual conference

The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley just concluded. Didn’t get to attend? Now ESC has decided to open their doors to engineers worldwide, for an immersive ESC experience online. ESC has announced a free virtual embedded systems conference to beheld on June 16, 2011, from 8 AM to 3 PM PT. The ESC Silicon […]

OpenHack Europe: Node.js and practical hacking with Javascript

The Yahoo-sponsored OpenHack Europe 2011 is in progress in Bucharest, Romania. One of the latest presentations was Reid Burke’s Achieving Greatness with Node.js. While only the slides are available at this time, they are quite informative and include links to additional content. If you’re wondering how this relates to open source hardware, see slides 24-25. […]

Short notice: AVR Studio 5 webinar

Atmel is presenting a free webinar on March 17, 2011 on AVR Studio 5. This one hour presentation will begin at 8:00 AM PDT and will cover the Visual Assist Solution Explorer project manager, the AVR Software Framework for AVR XMEGA and AVR UC3 and more including many example projects. You can download your copy […]

O’Reilly Webcast: Build a $10 electric guitar

Want to take a stick, some wire, a can and some wax and make a $10 electric guitar? O’Reilly has a free webcast tomorrow, February 11, 2011 @ 10 AM PT, presented by David Erik Nelson that will take you from a pile of scrap wood and hardware to a working one-string electric guitar, all […]

Shmoocon 2011: intercepting FHSS radio signals

Q, Atlas and Cutaway gave a presentation at the Shmoocon 2011 conference held recently in Washington, DC, concerning interception techniques for Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) radio signals. They demonstrate the use of low-cost, easily obtained hardware/software to conduct predictive channel hopping analysis coupled with crude spectrum analysis and ultimately identify any given hopping pattern […]

Shmoocon 2011: Linux autorun USB attacks

Many of us use Linux on a regular basis, and some users mistakenly believe that it’s immune to many of the hack attacks commonly used against Windows machines. In this talk presented at the Shmoocon 2011 conference which recently concluded in Washington, DC, Jon Larimer demonstrates how the development of common windows features in Linux, […]

Shmoocon 2011: Exploring ZigBee Security

At the Shmoocon 2011 conference which recently concluded in Washington, DC, Ryan Speers and Ricky Melgares presented ZigBee Security: Find, Fix, Finish. ZigBee is a low-power, low-data rate wireless protocol based on IEEE 802.15.4. It connects lightweight embedded technology like HVAC, smart energy, security, and process automation systems, and is an attractive target as it […]

Shmoocon 2011: Custom Bluetooth hardware attacks

Here’s a summary by Hak5 of Bluetooth hardware attacks presented at the recent Shmoocon 2011 conference held in Washington, DC. Here the Hak5 gang interviews Michael Ossmann about project Ubertooth – a custom hardware device for sniffing and injecting Bluetooth packets. This brings monitor mode to Bluetooth, making for some interesting RF activities. The complete […]

27C3: Chip and Pin is broken

Smart cards have gradually replaced magnetic strip cards for point-of-sale and ATM transactions in many countries. Customers authorize a credit or debit card transaction by inserting their card and entering a PIN into a point-of-sale terminal; the PIN is typically verified by the smart card chip, which is in turn authenticated to the terminal by […]