Episode 242: Hacking the Farm (and John Deere) with Sick Codes
In our latest podcast, Paul caught up with Sick Codes (@sickcodes) to talk about his now-legendary presentation at the DEF CON Conference in Las Vegas, in which he demonstrated a hack that ran...
DEF CON DOOM Patrol: Deere Jailbreak Raises Questions on Security, Competition
A researcher presented the results of a year-long effort to reverse engineer John Deere hardware to run a version of the DOOM first person shooter. He also discovered a number of...
Feel Good Ukraine Tractor Story Highlights Ag Cyber Risk
The good news? John Deere bricked expensive farm equipment taken by thieving Russian troops. The bad news: those same remote access features could be used to launch crippling, large scale attacks...
DEF CON: Security Holes in Deere, Case IH Shine Spotlight on Agriculture Cyber Risk
A demonstration at DEF CON of glaring flaws in software by agricultural equipment giants John Deere and Case IH raise the specter of remote, software-based attacks that could cripple farms and...
Deere John: Researcher Warns Ag Giant’s Site Provides a Map to Customers, Equipment
Software vulnerabilities in web sites operated by John Deere could allow a remote attacker to harvest information on the company’s customers including their names, physical addresses and the equipment they own....
Critical Flaw Found In Widely Used Netmask Open Source Module
An IP address parsing flaw in the netmask NPM module affects hundreds of thousands of applications that rely on it. But that may be just the tip of the iceberg, researchers...
Episode 201: Bug Hunting with Sick Codes
The work of vulnerability research has changed a lot in the last two decades. In this episode, Security Ledger Podcast host Paul Roberts chats with the independent researcher known as “Sick...