Black Hat 2019: The Craziest, Most Terrifying Things We Saw

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Black Hat 2019: The Craziest, Most Terrifying Things We Saw
Phony Phones
Missiles for Malware
Spreading in Software
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Black Hat 2019: The Craziest, Most Terrifying Things We Saw PCMag Follow Aug 12 · 7 min read
Black Hat is over for another year, but we’ll be thinking of the fascinating and terrifying things we heard and saw for years to come.
The Las Vegas sun has set on another Black Hat, and the myriad of hacks, attacks, and vulnerabilities it brings.
Security researcher Mikko Hypponen pondered the https://www.pcmag.com/news/370079/what-are-the-rules-of-engagement-in-a-cyberwar” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>consequences of cyberwar becoming an actual shooting war in his presentation at Black Hat. It’s an important issue in this age of state-sponsored hackers and Russian election meddling.
That’s what some researchers did.
In this Black Hat talk, we saw that kind of scary, wonky things happen to a driverless car when you mess with navigation signals.
That’s the question GoSecure researchers Masarah Paquet-Clouston (pictured) and Olivier Bilodeau tried to answer in their Black Hat talk.
Every now and again you’ll see a story about a security company or a government that has a super-secret iPhone vulnerability it’s using for some such nefarious activity.
One Google security researcher wondered if such things could really exist, and found 10 bugs in the process.
Black Hat presenters don’t always have the cozy relationship with the companies and organizations they investigate, a point driven home this year when Ruben Santamarta unveiled his potential attacks on the Boeing 787 network.
Neil hasn’t read it yet, but the group certainly rocked this Black Hat; he encountered them three days in a row.
Wednesday Neil got pulled into an invite-only lunch panel featuring Deth Veggie, author Joe Menn, Dug Song of Duo Security, and Heather Adkins, currently Google’s senior director of security, among others.
In a session about the Russian Dark Web, researchers examined how recent Russian laws are making it harder to police activity within that country.
Not at Black Hat. With a little know-how and some low-cost hardware, two researchers were able to open doors and extract all kinds of useful information

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