Episode 98: Team 82 Sharon Brizinov - The Live Hacking Polymath

Episode 98: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin Gardner sits down with Sharon,to discuss his journey from early iOS development to leading a research team at Claroty. They address the differences between HackerOne and Pwn2Own, and talk through some intricacies of IoT security, and some less common IoT attack surfaces.

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Resources

The Claroty Research Team

https://claroty.com/team82

Pwntools

https://github.com/Gallopsled/pwntools

Scan My SMS

http://scanmysms.com

Gotta Catch 'Em All: Phishing, Smishing, and the birth of ScanMySMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhNsXXbDp3U

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:31) Sharon's Origin Story

(00:21:58) Transition to Bug Bounty and Pwn2Own vs HackerOne

(00:47:05) IoT/ICS Hacking Methodology

(01:10:13) Cloud to Device Communication

(01:18:15) Bug replication and uncommon attack surfaces

(01:30:58) Documentation tracker, reCaptcha bypass, and ScanMySMS