Outside the box: pwning IoT devices through their applications - Alexei Kojenov
Channel: OWASP Foundation
Date: 2022-01-06

Speaker
Alexei Kojenov
Salesforce, Lead Product Security Engineer

Description
We often think of AppSec and IoT as two separate infosec disciplines. Sure, the domain knowledge, attack vectors, and threat mitigation are not exactly the same in those two worlds. At the same time, as the hardware continues to evolve, we see more and more tiny general purpose computers around us. Many of these tiny computers nowadays run software that is written in a conventional programming language, listen on network ports, process data inputs, and communicate with the outside world. These devices can be attacked just like any other application running on a desktop, on a server, or in the cloud.

In this talk, I am going to tell you a story about my hacking journey that unexpectedly took me from device configuration settings to software reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery, and six new CVEs. Together, we’ll go step by step through firmware analysis, decompiling, code review, and vulnerability demos. I’ll also share my experience with the responsible disclosure process. I hope this talk inspires you to apply your application security knowledge to new areas such as IoT, even if you’ve never done that before.

Managed by the OWASP® Foundation
https://owasp.org/