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BSides Las Vegas, iMessage Exploit, 5G and Stingray Surveillance
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for August 12th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: My summary of last week’s BSides Las Vegas security conference, how a single text message to your iPhone could get you hacked, and how Stingray surveillance devices can still be used on new 5G networks.
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Hi everyone, welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 cybersecurity and privacy topics from the week. These podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
The annual BSides Las Vegas security conference took place last week which also coincides with the Black Hat and infamous DEF CON hacking conference. This is the week that all of us in the cybersecurity industry lovingly call “security summer camp”. BSides would be considered the smaller conference of the three and in my opinion, provides a much more intimate experience to network with other cybersecurity and privacy professionals. As part of this year’s BSides conference, I participated in the “Proving Ground” speaking track where I was a mentor helping out a fantastic new speaker work on the talk that he gave at the conference. It was a very rewarding experience that I highly recommend other speakers volunteer for if they have the time to do so. I also attended several talks and met several speakers that had some very interesting research to share. While many of the talks at BSides were about all the latest topics on how anything is hackable, there were two talks in particular that were on topics that we don’t hear much about. These talks were “Satellite Vulnerabilities 101” by Elizabeth Wilson and “Human Honey Pots or How I learned to love the NFC implant” by Nick Koch.
Satellites provide means for different forms of communication as well as GPS, military, and other critical systems. Elizabeth presented a really nice overview of the many different types of vulnerabilities that are present in satellites including everything from, timing of banking transactions, nation states using anti-satellite weapons, and even the threat of space junk. Here’s Elizabeth’s take on the threat of space junk and how this is a major problem.
Elizabeth: The debris is growing and growing and the more you put up there the more potential damage you’re putting up as well. It’s like I said during my talk, the difference between a hundred .01 meter satellites and one single satellite that’s 1 meter is 30 times of an increase in risk. And when you consider that, the more you have these small hard to track things that sometimes don’t even have propulsion systems, yeah it’s going to create a lot of issues. This is one of the most pressing areas that we need. We really need some
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