🛡 IoT Security Digest - #4

Q4 is looming. The deep breath before the plunge. In the same way that we all procrastinated in school when that big assignment got closer, so to companies will be frantically lining up time for their annual pentests in the coming months. I get it! I just want to let people know that you can also do pentests in first 3/4th of the year. 😉 Crazy idea I know…

In The News

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

I love the hardware hacking community! Bogdan Ionescu modified his Vape device with a ARM Cortex-M0+ to run a webserver.

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home

Well AI security has now hit home in the IoT world! We probably need to have a conversation about how much of this smart home tech we allow into our homes… no it will be fine!

Hackers Break into Virtual Dashcam Service

• I recently did some research on a Chinese police bodycam, so this story caught my eye. There is always a bigger possible impact when these public safety systems send their data to a central location and that data isn’t secured.

Tools of the Trade

NIST Finalizes ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ Standard to Protect Small Devices

NIST has unveiled a few new cryptographic algorithms specifically designed for lightweight embedded devices that lack computer resources for traditional algorithms. It will be interesting to see how the adoption of these methods goes.

Return Value

Let me cook! I may have been quiet lately, but there are big things on the horizon. October is going to be fun! I plan to do a bunch of livestreaming (be sure to subscribe to be notified). Also will drop a ton of content. stay tuned!