Wi-Fi devices are affected by a series of new attacks on the Wi-Fi protocol, known as FragAttacks and released in May 2021. These attacks have complex requirements and impacts. We attempt to shed some light on those and provide some guidance for users, developers and asset owners (integrators or IT staff).
This blog post is the last part of a series, if you are interested in the security or privacy of smart home devices, be sure to check out the other parts as well! TL;DR: In our previous blog posts we concluded that there is quite a long way to go for both security and privacy … Continue reading Smart Home Devices: assets or liabilities? – Part 3: Looking at the future
Firmware: the holy grail of most Internet of Things (IoT) security assessments! Sometimes, getting access to a device's firmware can be as easy as visiting the vendor's website. Other times, the only option is to dump it directly from the hardware, and this is where things get interesting. Some procedures used for dumping can expose … Continue reading Will they melt? Testing the resistance of flash memory chips
