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This month Colin summarizes a few interesting presentations from the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. He walks you through some attacks on bitcoin wallets, x86 backdoors and side channel analysis work—these and other interesting presentations from Black Hat 2018.
Verkada Breach Demonstrates Danger of Overprivileged Users In re-evaluating supply chains, companies should classify vendors with super admin privileges to devices or backdoors as a significant threat. Uber's God Mode. Hard-coded passwords in networking products. Rosenbridge processor backdoors. And now Verkada's super admin account that reportedly gave hackers — as well as more than 100 internal users — access to videos from tens of thousands of client cameras. The list of massive security failures due to product or service architectures that give a single user or group unfettered privil...