These attacks took place on Track 0 of the contest.Īccording to the rules of the contest, an entry wasn't considered valid unless the contestant also showed proof of disclosure to the manufacturer. The contest was a success and the results are alarming: participants documented 15 new 0-day vulnerabilities, including 7 full router takeovers. As he noted, the "SOHOpelessly Broken" DEFCON hacking contest, co-presented by Independent Security Evaluators and EFF, is drawing attention to security vulnerabilities in routers with the goal of helping to get them fixed. But he also noted a small silver lining around the dark cloud of router security: people are starting to take the problem much more seriously. "I could take down the internet with that, and so could you."ĭan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer of CIA’s venture capital arm, didn't mince words when he mentioned the security flaws in home routers during his keynote address at last month's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
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