Off Computers

Title

Taking Security Focus Off Computers in DefCon 21 Talks

Speaker/Bio

Max is a MSc student at NISLAB. His research interests are networking, applied cryptography, and security.

Abstract

This presentation summarizes two DefCon talks with the common thread of ignoring ordinary desktop/laptop computers and focusing on other devices. One talk looks at obtaining user credentials by using bugs in WPA Enterprise authentication handling on smartphones, while the other talk demonstrates a platform that can infect a network and take over various devices (printers, phones, network equipment, and so on) without ever touching an ordinary x86 machine, as well as a general method of mitigation of the attack strategy used in the offense section.