The first entirely virtual edition of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference took place last week and researchers from tens of organizations presented the results of their work from the past year.
Some of the most interesting presentations focused on vulnerabilities affecting industrial, IoT, hardware and web products, but a few of the talks covered endpoint software security.
Here are some of the most interesting presentations from Black Hat:
Legacy programming languages can pose serious risks to industrial robots
Researchers from Trend Micro and the Polytechnic University of Milan have analyzed industrial programming languages and the risks they pose to robots and other programmable manufacturing machines. They have developed a worm to demonstrate the severity of their findings.
Variants of the Kr00k attack impact Wi-Fi chips from Qualcomm and MediaTek
The Kr00k vulnerability, which allows attackers to decrypt wireless communications, only affects Wi-Fi chips from Broadcom and Cypress, but ESET researchers discovered recently that similar vulnerabilities also exist in chips made by MedaTek and Qualcomm.
Mercedes-Benz E-Class hacked remotely by Chinese researchers
Researchers from Sky-Go, the vehicle cybersecurity unit of Chinese security firm Qihoo 360, have described the analysis process that resulted in the discovery of 19 vulnerabilities in a Mercedes-Benz E-Class, including flaws that can be exploited to remotely hack a car.
Lamphone attack allows spying via light bulb vibrations
A researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has detailed a technique for remotely eavesdropping on the conversations in a room by analyzing a
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