“There’s a lack of imagination or… anticipation about the next move that hackers will make," warned investigative journalist Kim Zetter during Black Hat this week.
Former CISA director Chris Krebs said at Black Hat that the community may have focused too much on APT groups in recent years.
CISA Director Jen Easterly said the agency's new Joint Cuber Defense Collaborative seeks imagination and innovation in the hacker community to help secure critical infrastructure.
Reverse engineering to find the root cause of vulnerabilities can be a frustrating task, but even the analyses that go wrong can produce lessons and new skills.
Security researchers have demonstrated in the past how implanted medical devices such as insulin pumps and pacemakers can be compromised. A team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University investigated how these devices could be used to compromise secure facilities used to work on classified information.