{"id":473,"date":"2010-05-10T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2010-05-18T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T13:06:18","slug":"maximum-overdrive-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Overdrive Redux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at SANS SecWest 2010 in San Diego I gave a presentation I&#8217;ve been working on called &#8220;Maximum Overdrive Redux&#8221;, looking at exploiting embedded and smart hardware systems.\u00a0 We started off with the <a title=\"AC\/DC Maximum Overdrive Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_jvqPvDUEW8\" target=\"_blank\">AC\/DC Video<\/a> from the <a title=\"Maximum Overdrive Wikipedia Page\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maximum_Overdrive\" target=\"_blank\">1986 Stephen King movie<\/a> about how machines take over and start killing people, eventually manipulating them into human pawns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/images\/maximumOdrive.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Maximum Overdrive &quot;Happy Toys&quot; Truck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/images\/maximumOdrive.jpg\" alt=\"Maximum Overdrive &quot;Happy Toys&quot; Truck\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This movie was pretty bad, and Stephen King is even quoted as saying &#8220;I was coked out of my head&#8221; during direction.\u00a0 As a result, it became a cult classic, and I thought it was a pretty good analogy for what we&#8217;re seeing with the increased reliance, interconnectivity, and physical-world access in embedded systems.<\/p>\n<p>I made four critical points in the presentation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tools for exploiting embedded systems are available and getting better;<\/li>\n<li>Embedded systems are becoming more interconnected;<\/li>\n<li>Vendors are widely overlooking the security of embedded platforms;<\/li>\n<li>Attackers can leverage flaws in embedded systems to exploit the physical world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I backed up these points by looking at attacks against smart card parking meters, home area networks, Internet-connected vehicle control systems, Verizon MiFi devices, the <a title=\"SHODAN Search Engine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shodanhq.com\" target=\"_self\">SHODAN Computer Search Engine<\/a>, NIBE Heat Pumps and more.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve <a title=\"Maximum Overdrive Redux Slides\" href=\"http:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/presentations\/Maximum_Overdrive%20Redux_SecWest2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">posted the slides<\/a> in the Presentations\u00a0 section.<\/p>\n<p>Comments, questions, concerns? <a title=\"Contact Me\" href=\"http:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/?page_id=87\" target=\"_self\">Please drop me a note<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks! -Josh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at SANS SecWest 2010 in San Diego I gave a presentation I&#8217;ve been working on called &#8220;Maximum Overdrive Redux&#8221;, looking at exploiting embedded and smart hardware systems.\u00a0 We started off with the AC\/DC Video from the 1986 Stephen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/?p=473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-smart-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhackforsushi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}