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Sep 2024
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Episode 89: The Untapped Bug Bounty Land...

Justin Gardner (Rhynorater) & Joseph Thacker (Rez0)
About this episode

Episode 89: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast We’re joined live by Matt Brown to talk about his journey with hacking in the IoT. We cover the specializations and challenges in hardware hacking, and Matt’s personal Methodology. Then we switch over to touch on BGA Reballing, Certificate Pinning and Validation, and some of his own bug stories.

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Shoutout to YTCracker for the awesome intro music!

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Today’s Guess Matt Brown: https://x.com/nmatt0

Resources:

Decrypting SSL to Chinese Cloud Servers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qSxxNvuEtg

mitmrouter

https://github.com/nmatt0/mitmrouter

certmitm Automatic Exploitation of TLS Certificate Validation Vulns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_l2q_Gyqfo

and

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2031/DEF%20CON%2031%20presentations/Aapo%20Oksman%20-%20certmitm%20automatic%20exploitation%20of%20TLS%20certificate%20validation%20vulnerabilities.pdf

https://github.com/aapooksman/certmitm

HackerOne Detailed Platform Standards

https://docs.hackerone.com/en/articles/8369826-detailed-platform-standards

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:13:33) Specialization and Challenges of IOT Hacking

(00:33:03) Decrypting SSL to Chinese Cloud Servers

(00:47:00) General IoT Hacking Methodology

(01:26:00) Certificate Pinning and Certificate Validation

(01:34:35) BGA Reballing

(01:43:26) Bug Stories

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