You can try to hide your firmware from Kelly Patterson, but she’ll find it (and break it)
Summary: Kelly Patterson, a researcher on Cisco Talos' Vulnerability Discovery team, focuses on finding flaws in hardware and firmware, and her team helps disclose and patch more than 200 security vulnerabilities a year. One of her early Talos projects found several critical vulnerabilities in two WAGO programmable logic controllers that could let a remote, unauthenticated attacker execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via specially crafted packets.
What you should know: Her WAGO work showed that the cloud connection on an embedded device is itself an attack vector, and the same team's output of more than 200 patched vulnerabilities a year covers devices in thousands of households plus industrial control systems and critical infrastructure.
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