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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

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A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. Think about it.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

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In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. So you're going to need a lot of tools.

IoT 52
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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. So you're going to need a lot of tools.

IoT 52