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.
