Wireless Security Excuse Bingo

Thanks to a retweet by Travis Goodspeed of a retweet by digitalbond and originally by SCADAhacker, I was reminded of Jutta Degener and Matt Blaze’s security excuse bingo, and agree that it would be entertaining (and somewhat disconcerting probably) to compile a wireless security excuse bingo board, focused specifically on the technologies and the resulting answers used in wireless sensor networks and SCADA systems, etc — as this relates to my IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee focus of late.

I’d like to gather input from those of you who work or have interaction with this field, and I bet an interesting list may result. I’ll post my suggestions in comments as well, and a running list can be started.

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Posted at 11am on 09/14/11 | 3 comments | Filed Under: Blog, Security Research

USENIX WOOT ’11 Paper: Packets-in-Packets

Packets in Packets: Orson Welles’ In-Band Signaling Attacks for Modern Radios” marks my first paper in a truly peer-reviewed publication. This was written thanks to some great collaboration with Travis Goodspeed as well as Sergey Bratus, Ricky Melgares, and Rebecca Shapiro in the Dartmouth Trust Lab.

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Posted at 10am on 06/28/11 | no comments | Filed Under: My Work, Security Research