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#698 – Hardware Security with Matt Brown

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Welcome Matt Brown of Brown Fine Security!

  • Matt has been reverse engineering a “smart” smoker controller that talks back to AWS IOT
  • Jeff Geerling talking about his dishwasher
  • Storing private keys on the device??
  • Threat models
  • Key rotation
  • What is the best case scenario for an IoT device?
  • Secure boot / trust zone
  • Keys encrypt flash storage
  • Chris has designed in the ATECC608 before
  • Replacing Certificate Authority (CA) cert in grill firmware
  • Matt has a Linux hardware / reverse engineering background
  • Flash is always external
  • Ghidra / idapro / binwalk
  • Security cameras are 99% linux based (battery based cameras might be embedded)
  • Best practices
  • Encrypted firmware
  • hidden uart / jtag
  • Keys
  • Are linux devices “worth more” to a security researcher?
  • CVSS risk scoring system
  • Attack vector
  • Vulnerabilities are better if it can be a remote executed
  • Linux devices have more compute
  • Bluetoothe LE
  • Ability to enumerate
  • Scale reverse engineering
  • Chris has discussed the silliness of a bluetooth toothbrush on the show before
  • Tools / Software of the trade
    • xgeku firmware reader
    • picoemp
    • PCBite
    • Saleae
    • SDR USRP B200
    • Universal radio hacker
  • Stick-to-it-ness
  • Matt just came back from hardwear.io, one of his new favorite conferences
  • Find Matt at the embedded systems village at DEF CON
  • Follow Matt via his YouTube channel
  • Matt has a new IoT Security newsletter starting up

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