Breaking Boundaries: Popping Shells in the Airgap w $10 & Arduino Magic
Daniel Beard
DEF CON 32 Creator Stage · Day 1 · Creator Stage
Daniel Beard's DEF CON 32 talk, "Breaking Boundaries: Popping Shells in the Airgap w $10 & Arduino Magic," challenges long-held assumptions about physical access security in medical device environments. Beard, a software engineer with extensive experience in medical device development, demonstrates how a low-cost, off-the-shelf microcontroller can be weaponized to gain remote shell access to supposedly **air-gapped** medical devices. The core premise of the talk is to dismantle the belief that "physical access for an extended period of time" or "an internet connection for persistence" are prerequisites for exploiting medical devices via USB.