Episode 89: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast We’re joined live by Matt Brown to talk about his journey with hacking in the IoT. We cover the specializations and challenges in hardware hacking, and Matt’s personal Methodology. Then we switch over to touch on BGA Reballing, Certificate Pinning and Validation, and some of his own bug stories.
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Resources:
Decrypting SSL to Chinese Cloud Servers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qSxxNvuEtg
mitmrouter
https://github.com/nmatt0/mitmrouter
certmitm Automatic Exploitation of TLS Certificate Validation Vulns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_l2q_Gyqfo
and
https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2031/DEF%20CON%2031%20presentations/Aapo%20Oksman%20-%20certmitm%20automatic%20exploitation%20of%20TLS%20certificate%20validation%20vulnerabilities.pdf
https://github.com/aapooksman/certmitm
HackerOne Detailed Platform Standards
https://docs.hackerone.com/en/articles/8369826-detailed-platform-standards
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:13:33) Specialization and Challenges of IOT Hacking
(00:33:03) Decrypting SSL to Chinese Cloud Servers
(00:47:00) General IoT Hacking Methodology
(01:26:00) Certificate Pinning and Certificate Validation
(01:34:35) BGA Reballing
(01:43:26) Bug Stories
