Breaking Ground·49 min
Phil Young · Grant Dobbe · Daemon Tamer
Panelists explain how the Proving Ground mentorship track at BSides Las Vegas helps first-time speakers build talks and careers.
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Breaking Ground talks from BSides Las Vegas 2024.
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Breaking Ground·49 min
Phil Young · Grant Dobbe · Daemon Tamer
Panelists explain how the Proving Ground mentorship track at BSides Las Vegas helps first-time speakers build talks and careers.
Breaking Ground·37 min
Jay Chen · Ravid Mazon
Shows how large language models can automate finding broken object level authorization flaws in APIs.
Breaking Ground·16 min
Nick Frost
Walks through three ways to steal Chrome cookies on macOS and the Santa and osquery controls that block or detect them.
Breaking Ground·17 min
Demonstrates how misconfigured OIDC authentication in cloud environments can be abused to gain access.
Breaking Ground·20 min
Amelia Weeding · Dave Bailey
Shows how a cheap Tuya-based weather station leaks credentials in firmware and accepts forged commands over its network.
Breaking Ground·29 min
Dominic Zanardi · Matthew Sullivan
Shows how Instacart automates just-in-time access approvals with an LLM that scores requests against existing role holders.
Breaking Ground·38 min
Fabricio Bortoluzzi
Presents a Terraform-based cloud telescope that captures unsolicited internet traffic and profiles Mirai infection patterns.
Breaking Ground·40 min
Patrick Kiley
Introduces an open-source adapter that connects to serial, JTAG, SPI, I2C and SWD targets at mixed logic levels.
Breaking Ground·20 min
Elysee Franchuk · Mohnish Dhage
Shows how raw Ethernet frames can carry covert remote shell traffic that slips past common layer 3 and higher detections.
Breaking Ground·42 min
Brian Reilly
Maps ColdFusion attack surface through recent vulnerabilities and offers ways to reduce exposure in legacy deployments.
Breaking Ground·17 min
Liv Matan
Explains how shared cloud parent domains enable session fixation, using a one-click AWS Airflow account takeover as the case study.
Breaking Ground·36 min
Oreen Livni Shein · Elad Pticha
Shows how a compromised pod can poison Argo CD's Redis cache to deploy malicious workloads and take over a Kubernetes cluster.
Breaking Ground·26 min
Chris Formosa · crudd
Traces a proxy botnet back from the dead and the criminal proxy service it was feeding, plus a failed takedown.
Breaking Ground·44 min
Allyn Stott
Shows how to build detection and response metrics that answer real questions, drive progress, and avoid gaming.
Breaking Ground·42 min
Kaichi Sameshima · Atsushi Kanda · Ryo Minakawa
Tracks a pro-Russian hacktivist group's DDoS botnet, its command-and-control protocol, and the infrastructure it keeps rotating.