Versatile Program at the Night of Digitalization
The Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung (Night of Digitalization) makes the digital world in Karlsruhe an experience for everyone. aramido is once again taking part and opens its doors to visitors on June 7, 2024, from 3:00 PM.
aramido at the Night of Digitalization
Program Overview
A colorful program is offered: from exciting live hacking presentations and a Capture the Flag competition to an exhibition of hacking tools, the aramido team showcases a wide range of valuable content.
Various interactive stations invite you to participate and tinker together. For the first time, it will be possible to clone your own voice at the Voice Cloning station.
In good weather, our roof terrace once again offers the opportunity to let the eventful day wind down – with a cool drink in hand and a view of the sunset over the rooftops of Karlsruhe.
Presentations
Those who want to protect effectively must know how attacks are carried out. In the presentations, the aramido team uses several live hacks to show that hacking is also part of the duties of an information security consultant.
Activity Stations
Besides the presentations, various stations invite you to get informed and participate:
- Capture the Flag competition (CTF)
- Voice Cloning – Clone your own voice
- USB Condom soldering station
- Hacking gadget exhibition
- Fingerprint dummy
- Crypto Box
- Tschunk Bar
Subject to change.
Presentation Details
Smartphone Hacking – A brief history of vulnerable cyborgs
The history of smartphones is short. In 2007, Apple introduced the first iPhone with its own iOS operating system, and a year later, Android, today's dominant smartphone operating system, entered the market. And the history of the first smartphone hacks is just as old: from the first jailbreaks to celebrity nudes and commercially and state-sponsored spyware.
Using attack trees and live hacking demonstrations, the speakers show how smartphones are attacked. Understanding this is the basis for effective protective measures.
Capture the Flag (CTF) – What the CTF competition is all about
Capture the Flag (CTF) is a popular competition in the field of IT security, where participants prove their skills in dealing with vulnerabilities and other puzzles. These competitions are a kind of game in which teams or individuals must solve various security tasks to find so-called flags.
In the presentation, the speakers explain what a CTF is, what types of tasks exist, how to start with CTF games, and what skills and knowledge are required.
Voice Cloning – The art of digital voice replication
Voice Cloning is a fascinating technology that makes it possible to clone human voices using artificial intelligence (AI). Characteristic features of a voice, such as tone, pauses, and accents, are trained through machine learning and stored in a model. Subsequently, the AI can read texts or change spoken recordings with the cloned voice.
In the presentation, the speakers show live how easily and quickly a voice can be cloned, where the current limits are, and how to best protect yourself from the dangers of "deep fakes."
Hacking on Ice – When you should better turn off your PC (Live Hack)
To protect data from unauthorized access, it is encrypted with tools such as Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault. For mobile devices in a business environment, this is often a compliance requirement. Only those who know the password can access the data. That this is a misconception, security researchers showed as early as 2008: if they had physical access to a computer that was switched on or "sleeping" (standby mode), they could read the password from the working memory. Even today, so-called Cold Boot attacks are still possible.
In the presentation, such an attack on a computer with disk encryption will be carried out live, and countermeasures will be presented to avoid becoming a victim of a Cold Boot attack. Whether Windows, macOS, or Linux: everyone who relies on disk encryption is affected.
Details of the Activity Stations
CTF – Capture the Flag Competition
Various university teams compete against each other in a Capture the Flag (CTF) competition, proving their skills in dealing with security-relevant vulnerabilities. They must solve various tasks to find so-called "flags." These flags are hidden strings that serve as proof of the successful exploitation of a vulnerability or the solving of a task.
The award ceremony takes place during the CTF presentation
(5:15 PM – 5:45 PM).
Voice Cloning – Clone your own voice
Try voice cloning yourself! Only a short text needs to be spoken. Characteristic features of the voice are trained through machine learning and stored in a model. Subsequently, the AI can read texts with the cloned voice.
USB Condom soldering station
Those who want to be active themselves have the perfect opportunity at the soldering workshop to create their own small gadget. Using soldering irons and 3D-printed housings, visitors create their own USB condom. With this useful tool, you can charge devices with confidence at foreign USB ports.
Presentation of Hacking Gadgets
Get an overview of the tools used by penetration testers at aramido's hacking tool exhibition. From the WiFi Pineapple and Rubber Ducky to the Flipper Zero, you can learn how seemingly inconspicuous tools can cause significant damage.
Fingerprint Dummy
Matching the smartphone hacking presentation, visitors can clone their own fingerprint using simple tricks and everyday materials. It's amazing how positively corresponding sensors react!
Cryptography made easy
Cryptography is often the basis for security in information systems. Without the ability to encrypt data and thus effectively protect it from access, most security goals would simply be unattainable. But even today's complex cryptography started small. Using the CryptoBox from the Karlsruhe University of Education, specifically developed for students from 1st to 10th grade, people of all ages can gain easy and playful access to this fascinating subject.
Tschunk Bar
Of course, there is plenty of "Tschunk" at the Tschunk Bar. It is the supplement of choice when you are hungry for fantasy and craving liquid while hacking: Club Mate + lime + cane sugar + ice + rum = more flags.
Attention: Anyone who starts perceiving the world in binary should stop the Tschunk consumption for safety.
In good weather, let the week wind down with a cool drink above the rooftops of Karlsruhe and get into conversation with others – the aramido roof terrace is the perfect place for that!
Tip: In the evening, you have a beautiful view of the sunset.
On 21.05.2024 in the category aramido published.