Breaking into Wireless Smart Homes, Z-Wave example
This talk will cover Z-Wave (an a bit of Zigbee and Matter) security mechanisms as well as different attack vectors on a Z-Wave network and describe how the protocol evolved to mitigate those threats. Many smart homes are still vulnerable to the described attacks.
You will learn:
- security mechanisms and algorithms used in modern IoT smart home and smart building protocols and how they evolved,
- various ways to break existing Z-Wave networks (DDOS or key stealing during inclusion),
- new features in Z-Wave and Z-Wave Long Range protocol closing the described holes,
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| Language | English |
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