Stealthy and Persistent Back Door for Z- Wave Gateways

DerbyCon V - Unity

Presented by: Jonathan Fuller, Ben Ramsey
Date: Saturday September 26, 2015
Time: 10:00 - 10:25
Location: Track 5
Track: Stable Talks

Z-Wave is a proprietary wireless protocol that is gaining market share in home automation and security systems. However, very little work has been done to investigate the security implications of these sub-GHz devices. In this talk we review recent work on hacking Z-Wave networks, and introduce a new attack that creates a persistent back door. This attack maintains a stealthy, parallel, and persistent control channel with all Z-Wave devices in the home. We will demonstrate the attack against a commercial Z-Wave security system.

Jonathan Fuller

Ben Ramsey


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