HITB2022 Singapore conference impressions and post-review

Conference 1 of 3 for this year… Starting with the first international one in Singapore – here are a few post-thoughts and insights to share.

By the way – if you missed the topic by itself – link to the program: conference.hitb.org/faking-at-level-1-how-digital-twins-save-your-plcs/

the conference started with an thrilling keynote about thousands of insecure things and xIoT; went on with talks about fuzzing of MCUs, kernel module exploitation and API security;
having a lunch break with a great meetup in the main area led to a lot of worthwile sharing of experience regarding different security testing methods.
After lunch, security experts were talking about endpoint protection, OT (in)security and partially undisclosed security vulnerabilities.
At the speakers dinner at Lau Pa Sat specialties like smoked fish in bamboo leaves and spicy stingray has been served. At his evening we used to drink Tiger Beer.
Discussions about vulnerabilities, hobbies and domain habits between the speakers rounded up the topics.

Day 2 opened by a keynote about espionage and rifle hacking; details about implementation regarding RF electronics hacking were presented and besides the presentations (main track and commsec) there were a group of people with “car hacking” on their agenda; their demonstrations gave some very useful insights about automotive security

Overall, stickers and sweets were always present at hack in the box as well as free coffee and beer (after 5pm). And probably the most important fact, dhillon gave his best as a DJ; he was taking care of good music all the time which was a good preparation for the conference after-party.

all in all – a very successful start to the conferences for us as CyberDanube – many new topics on our list, useful contacts and some acquaintances, and who knows? Maybe one or the other contact to tie up other topics and projects.

One thing is for sure – HITB, we’ll see you again next year!