Some of the ERNW Crew hit up Black Hat USA and DEFCON. Our own Omar Eissa even
gave his first BH and DEFCON talks! See which talk we liked and what inspiration
we took home.
Hello Guys,
back from my vacation I’d like to give you some impressions about Defcon 24 and
our talk “Attacking BaseStations”. Defcon itself had a couple of great talks but
was a very crowded location. Anyhow, we had a couple of great discussions with
the people before and after our talk.
The talk “Attacking BaseStations” focussed on attack vectors we simulated in
our lab.
Besides attacking a BaseStation via Radio interface, in this talk we focussed on
local and remote interfaces as introduced in
“LTE vs. Darwin”.
As target of evaluation one of our eNodeB’s came into play, which we purchased
on the Internet. Anyhow, the talk covered the following attack scenarios:
While searching for some photos for my
last blog post on Thinkst Canary
I found a couple more from our recent trip to
Black Hat USA and
DEF CON, which I
consider worth sharing. Nothing too technical, just some visual impressions and
comments from my side. Let’s get it on!
My colleague Patrik and myself arrived one day early before the briefings and
headed right to Mandalay Bay to check out the Black Hat venue and get a feel for
the city. The sheer size of just everything is mind-blowing.
Information security conferences are known to be attended because of several
reasons. For some it’s the technical content, for others the networking
potential and for some others simply meeting old friends. Pinpointing our
motives is clearly a challenging task, but the following wrap-up ought to share
our personal highlights of the week we spent visiting Black Hat USA 2014 and
DEFCON 22 in Las Vegas.
After somewhat 18 hours of flight, some sleep and with the beautiful scenery of
perpetual clear skies above Las Vegas we began what was to be an incredible
week.
