Embedded devices as an attack vector
- Type
- Audio
- Tags
- embedded
- Authors
- Stephen Lewis
- Event
- Chaos Communication Congress 21th (21C3) 2004
- Indexed on
- Mar 27, 2013
- URL
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/files/283-embedded-devices-slides.pdf
- File name
- 283-embedded-devices-slides.pdf
- File size
- 297.9 KB
- MD5
- 3de680330830298cc8b3e6813becfa11
- SHA1
- b8cd657e9a7450c3988e638a93f4fb4b54dadf49
Although attacking embedded devices is not a new idea, little work has been done on using these devices for attack. Here I present work on the insertion of custom code into a network switch in order to carry out attacks on a network. The use of embedded devices present on a network as a vector for attacks against endstations is a threat that has not yet been realized, despite the knowledge of a number of vulnerabilities affecting such devices. This is probably due to the resistance of such devices to reverse engineering: they frequently run custom operating systems on obscure architectures.
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