Exploring the impact of a hard drive backdoor

Presented at REcon 2014, June 29, 2014, 5 p.m. (60 minutes)

This talk presents a firmware attack on an off-the-shelf hard drive. The implemented backdoor is capable of exfiltrating any data stored on the hard drive, through a network connection, without any modification of the system's operating system or software.

Presenters:

• Jonas Zaddach

Links:

• https://recon.cx/2014/schedule/events/25.html
• https://infocon.org/cons/REcon/REcon 2014/jonas-zaddach-Exploring-the-impact-of-a-hard-drive-backdoor.mp4

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 15 (2007) / Re-Animating Drives & Advanced Data Recovery
• DEF CON 14 (2006) / Rebuilding HARD DRIVES for Data Recovery: Anatomy of a Hard Drive
• 31C3 (2014) / »Hard Drive Punch«: Destroying data as a performative act