Episode 149: DEFCON Debrief: AI Vulns, Unicode Weirdness, and Wild Vulnerability Chains
Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast20 Marras 2025

Episode 149: DEFCON Debrief: AI Vulns, Unicode Weirdness, and Wild Vulnerability Chains

Episode 149: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast The DEFCON videos are up, and Justin and Joseph talk through some of their favorites.

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Unicode surrogates conversion

Prompt. Scan. Exploit

Breaking into thousands of cloud based VPNs with 1 bug

Examining Access Control Vulnerabilities in GraphQL

Smart Bus Smart Hacking

Passkeys Pwned

Bypassing Intent Destination Checks

Gemini Agents in Google Calendar

Exploitation of DOM Clobbering Vuln at Scale

TheHulk

Smart Devices, Dumb Resets

Mac PRT Cookie Theft

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:10:10) Prompt. Scan. Exploit

(00:23:52) Breaking into thousands of cloud based VPNs with 1 bug

(00:33:25) Access Control Vulns in GraphQL, Smart Bus Hacking, & Passkeys Pwned

(00:44:10) Bypassing Intent Destination Checks & Invoking Gemini Agents

(00:57:08) DOM Clobbering, Mac PRT Cookie Theft, & Smart Devices, Dumb Resets

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