Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes the journey itself is the destination. This one started when [Samy] was 10 and his mom bought a computer. He logged on to IRC to talk with people about …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Samy Kamkar’s Glowing Breath
Samy Kamkar has an incredible arsenal of self-taught skills that have grown into a remarkable career as a security researcher. He dropped out of high school to found a company based on Open Source Software and became infamous for releasing the Samy worm on the MySpace platform. But in our minds Samy has far outpaced that notoriety with the hardware-based security exploits he’s uncovered over the last decade. And he’s got a great gift for explaining these hacks — from his credit card magstripe spoofing experiments to hacking keyless entry systems and garage door opener remotes — in great depth …read more
[Samy Kamkar] is a hardware hacker extraordinaire. This week, he’s joining us on Hackaday.io for this week’s Hack Chat.
Every week, we find someone interesting that makes or breaks the electronic paraphernalia all around us. We sit them down, and get them to spill the beans on how this stuff works, and how we can get our tools and toys to work for everyone. This is the Hack Chat, and it’s happening this Friday, April 7, at noon PDT (20:0 UTC).
Over the years, [Samy] has demonstrated some incredible skills and brought us some incredible hacks. He defeated chip and …read more
Continue reading Friday Hack Chat: Breaking Security with Samy Kamkar
Samy Kamkar is well known for many things, but lately it has been his hardware security hacks that have been turning heads. The nice thing to know is that, despite not having a background in hardware, Samy is able to run with the best of hardware researchers. At the Hackaday SuperConference he offered words of advice for anyone trying to walk the path of discovery with an exciting new piece of electronics. One might say it’s a crash-course in how to be a hardware hacker.
Samy’s first bit of advice is to do the research. There is …read more
Continue reading Samy Kamkar Illustrates How to Be a Hardware Hacker
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including this week’s House hearing on the Internet of Things, Samy Kamkar’s PoisonTap tool, and Windows 10’s ransomware protections. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, November 18, 2016
[Samy Kamkar], leet haxor extraordinaire, has taken a treasure trove of exploits and backdoors and turned it into a simple hardware device that hijacks all network traffic, enables remote access, and does it all while a machine is locked. It’s PoisonTap, and it’s based on the Raspberry Pi Zero for all that awesome tech blog cred we crave so much.
PoisonTap takes a Raspberry Pi Zero and configures it as a USB Gadget, emulating a network device. When this Pi-come-USB-to-Ethernet adapter is plugged into a computer (even a locked one), the computer sends out a DHCP request, and PoisonTap responds …read more
Continue reading PoisonTap Makes Raspberry Pi Zero Exploit Locked Computers
Samy Kamkar’s latest hacking device, PoisonTap, can steal HTTP cookies from millions of websites and install persistent web-based backdoors. Continue reading PoisonTap Steals Cookies, Drops Backdoors on Password-Protected Computers
A new plug and hack device can steal your cookies even if your computer is locked. Continue reading This $5 Device Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute
Motherboard’s new show animates famous incidents of computer hacking. Continue reading Inside the Hack that Blew Up Myspace
