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The implants are powered by inductive charging – the same technology used to wirelessly charge smartphones – and Noe says they don’t set off airport scanners.
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Noe often uses social engineering – for example, he might ask to show you a funny video on your phone – and then quickly hack your device in seconds using what’s called a URL redirection attack.
Nearly all modern smartphones have an NFC chip — the technology behind Apple Pay and Google Pay — and Noe can typically use it to take control of a smartphone in less than 30 seconds. It can also quickly copy your company key card.
“The amount of personally identifiable information on your cell phone is at least 100 times the amount of information in your wallet,” Noe said. “And in the United States, we have health and privacy laws, and these implants are considered medical because they’re inside my body, which means the authorities don’t even have the right to ask questions about them.”
Noe said a tough childhood on the streets of Detroit, where he spent 15 years in various biker gangs, led to an awakening that made him decide he wanted to use his hacking skills for good, not evil. He now works for Israeli cybersecurity vendor CyberArk, where he serves as the company’s technology evangelist and carries out attacks himself to better understand how hackers think and work.
The hacker’s next project, which he has been working on for the past 18 months, involves surgically implanting a small computer into his leg. He also has a book coming out later this year, Human Hacked: My Life and Lessons as the World’s First Augmented Ethical Hacker.
“Ignorance of the existence of people like me and the capabilities we have is what will allow me to bypass your security.”
The key message he’s trying to convey is simple. “I want to open the eyes of the rest of the world to the fact that there’s a subspecies out there. And we’re not all necessarily dangerous, but some of us are,” he said. “Ignorance of the existence of people like me and the abilities that we have is what will allow me to bypass your security.”
“How do you stop an attack if you don’t know it’s happening? In Melbourne, I’m going to demonstrate five different attacks that will prove the devastation and capabilities of these types of implants.”
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Noe’s other message is that a lot of time and energy has been spent on cyber defense and digital security, but physical security is often neglected.
“Now, when you log in, you have multi-factor authentication to help you prove your identity. But we still have doors that lead to physical locations with a single point of access.
“Physical security, in my opinion, is the greatest threat that transhumanism poses, but we need to give our physical locations at least the same attention that we give our digital locations.”
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