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Hacking BLE Bicycle Locks for Fun and a Small Profit

Vincent Tan

Vincent Tan presents hacking ble bicycle locks for fun and a small profit: Hack a lock and get free rides!

Summary

Architecture and Background

Hack a lock and get free rides!

Vulnerability Analysis

(No free beer yet though...). This talk will explore the ever growing ride sharing economy and look at how the BLE "Smart" locks on shared bicycles work.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

The entire solution will be deconstructed and examined, from the mobile application to its supporting web services and finally communications with the lock. We will look at how to go about analysing communications between a mobile device and the lock, what works, what doesn't.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

Previous talks on attacking BLE targeted the protocol itself using various hardware and software such as Ubertooth and Wireshark, which could be potentially difficult for someone new wanting to explore BLE and the ever connected IoT world. I'll simplify and stupidify the entire process such that anyone with a mobile phone and basic experience with Frida can go about breaking locks and hacking BLE the world over.

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