Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast
70 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsListen and learn about different reverse engineering hardware projects and methods as Alvaro (@alvaroprieto) and Jen(@rebelbotjen) talk with guests about their work.
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069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings
April 17, 2024 12:33 - 1 hour - 57 MBIan from DangerousPrototypes (@DangerousProto) joined us to chat about the new BusPirate 5, DirtyPCB’s, and more! Check out this BusPirate 5 post for pictures of many things we mentioned on the show. Ian’s Halloween onion rings (And other instructables) BusPirate Taobao Ian’s Maker Faire 2012 Video Seedstudio BusBlaster Haxelerator Bunnie’s “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzen” Naomi Wu’s updated version of the guide OSHPark DirtyPCBs DirtySLA DirtyAcry...
068 - The Monkey Button
April 07, 2024 14:47 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBWe talked to Laurie Wired (X/Twitter, YouTube, Github) about malware reverse engineering, making youtube videos, and more! Check out her excellent series on Reverse Engineering 101 as well as her many Conference Talks. Here are links to some other topics we covered: Serial Experiments Lain EIEIO instruction Java Native Interface (JNI) .ipa file Virustotal MalwareBazaar RetroBar for Windows https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/ Neon White game vx underground tr...
067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing
March 03, 2024 01:51 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBJen and Alvaro briefly chat with Jacob Creedon outside a restaurant. Sorry for the terrible sound quality 😅! We’ll try to get back on track this year :) ImHex - Hex editor Jacob mentioned.
066 - Use Your Scope!
December 09, 2023 15:34 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBReverse Engineering the MegaII with James Lewis. James (https://www.baldengineer.com/) joined Jen and Alvaro to chat about MegaII reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the topics we covered: Element 14 Presents Youtube Hackster.io News MegaIIe Video Apple II Versions Logo (Programming Language) 7400 Series Logic PLCC Package The MiSTer Project Digilent Digital Discovery Schmitt Trigger Analog Discovery 2 ElectroBOOM KiCad JLCPCB RP2040 Checkmate Retro Display ...
065 - Multitalented Grinch
July 30, 2023 20:34 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBNo guest this time! Jen and Alvaro catch up 😀 NOTE: Alvaro will be at CCCamp in a few weeks https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023/infos/ Episode 03 - Barbies and Keyboards Barbie Liberation Organization Small Soldiers Movie Toys Movie Jumpin’ Jack Flash Rust - I Hear People Talk About It (shirt) OpenSauce Maker Faire Bay Area 2023 Alvaro’s USB Cable Tester Book Recommendations ARM Assembly and Reverse Engineering Fancy Bear Goes Phishing Fatal System Error Murdoc...
064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me
May 21, 2023 15:37 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBJen and Alvaro chat with Nika/ic3qu33n about 16-bit MS-DOS malware reverse engineering! You can find Nika in the following places: https://ic3qu33n.fyi/ https://github.com/nikaroxanne https://twitter.com/nikaroxanne https://infosec.exchange/@ic3qu33n Here are links to some of the topics we covered: Leviathan Security Group Hardware Happy Hour (3H) San Francisco BSidesSF Presentation - MTV Reboot — my Super Sweet 16-bit malware. Mikko Hypponen Darknet Diaries - Mikko Int...
063 - I Read Online That It’s Impossible
March 26, 2023 14:26 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBJen and Alvaro chat with Thomas Roth (@ghidraninja on Twitter) about Airtag reverse engineering, debugging iPhones, and GameBoy RE! You can also find Thomas on his stacksmashing.net, YouTube, and @[email protected]. Here are some links to the topics we covered: stacksmashing youtube channel Linux on iPod Airtag fault injection twitter thread Bypassing code protection on NRF52 Raspberry pi pico PIO Joe Grand wallet glitch video Wallet.fail Lennert’s Starlink...
062 - Keymap Rain Dance
December 30, 2022 15:42 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBDavid from Cyber City Circuits (@MakeAugusta) joined us to chat about reverse engineering, manufacturing, escape rooms, and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: HackerBoxes KiCad GIMP Inkscape SVG2Shenzen TwinkleTwinkie on Twitter and Mastodon 83Redux Twitter Thread (TI-83 RE project) Sensor Watch on CrowdSupply arturo182 on Twitter and Mastodon http://datamath.org/ https://tiplanet.org/ DigiHack Thread (Digimon Reversing Project) Joe Grand’s...
061 - A Case of the Sniffles
November 09, 2022 05:54 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBNote: We have 5 year anniversary T-Shirts available for sale. Order is open until Nov 28. We chatted with Sultan Qasim Khan (github) about BLE reverse engineering, relay attacks, and more! Libusb FTDI D2XX Motorola Mobility NCC Group Mike Ryan Ubertooth Mike’s Paper on BLE Security TI BLE sniffer Nordic BLE nRF sniffer https://www.ellisys.com/products/bex400/ Time-of-flight 802.15z Relay attack Sniffle Presentation at Hardwear.io 2019 and blog post Sniffle Gi...
060 - The Brie List
August 13, 2022 02:18 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBJen and Alvaro chat about the last 5 years! Don’t forget to get past guest @TubeTimeUS’s new book Open Circuits over at https://nostarch.com/open-circuits. You can use promo code UNNAMEDRE25 to get 25% off. Alvaro is going to be in a panel about Debugging Embedded Devices in Production on August 25th run by the awesome folks at Memfault. Here are some links to things we mentioned: Toorcamp Ran into past guests: Joe Grand Jared Boon Rick Altherr https://hardwear.io/ One of A...
059 - Instant Nerd Snipe
July 04, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBMike Ryan (bluetooth.expert) joins us once again to talk SDR’s, bluetooth, and more! If you need some consulting help, you can find him at ice9.us. Here are some links to things we talked about: Episode with Jiska Episode with Michael Ossmann Toorcon Toorcon 13 Badge Ice9 Consulting Web of Make Believe on Netflix Caltrain MTVRE Hacking Electric Skateboards Video @ DEFCON23 Inspectrum Rapid Radio Reversing Talk by Michael Ossmann NRF24 Ubertooth CC2400 Yardstick...
058 - Technically Met the Specs
June 15, 2022 06:09 - 1 hour - 122 MBSpecial thanks to Andrea of Hardwear.io team for inviting us. We learned a ton and meet a bunch of new people while (as of this writing) stayed COVID-free. Interviews in order: Eric Schlaepfer - author of the new book with co-author Windell Oskay (of “Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories” fame ) “Open Circuits” on No Starch press. Notes there are PREORDER discounts. Jacob Creedon: Just before his talk… at the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup. Spencer Moss from Google (I’m sure...
057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks!
May 09, 2022 18:04 - 1 hour - 67 MBMichael Ossmann (@michaelossmann) from Great Scott Gadgets joined us to chat all things SDR, Open Source Hardware, education, and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: HackRF One Ubertooth One GreatFET One A Mathematician's Lament WEP Wep dead again article APCO P25 Ettus USRP NTLMv1 Dominic Spill GNU Radio Michael’s KiCon Talk gr-bluetooth Michael’s awesome video series on SDR http://www.nsaplayset.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS...
056 - Listening to Jupiter
March 17, 2022 03:23 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBOleg Kutkov (@olegkutkov) joined us from Kyiv to chat about Starlink reverse engineering, astrophysics, and more! Check out his awesome website for some excellent write ups on various topics. Here are some links to the topics we covered: Back To The Future SpaceX Starlink Phased array antenna Arecibo observatory Crimean Astrophysical Observatory Oleg's Allsky Camera Writeup Medical Research that Referenced Oleg's Writeup NASA's Spooky Space Sounds NOAA GOES Satellites ...
055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips
March 13, 2022 18:27 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBLaura Abbott (website, @openlabbott) from Oxide.computer joins us to chat about reverse engineering the LPC55S69, linux kernel development, and more! Some of the topics we covered: Hubris Operating System Episode with Rick Altherr Laura’s Coworker Cliff’s Website Ghidra objdump SVD Loader for Ghidra Log4j ghidra DEF CON 29 - Breaking TrustZone M: Privilege Escalation on LPC55S69 Arm TrustZone-M TrustedFirmwareM project Oxide’s ROM patch POC Code Golfing Arm asse...
054 - It’s A Calibration, Not An Update!
February 11, 2022 14:50 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBWillem Melching(@PD0WM) joins us to chat about reverse engineering cars! We discovered him through his excellent blog. Willem is the head of openpilot at comma.ai. They are hiring! Here are links to some of the topics we discussed: LEGO Mindstorms PICBasic PIC Microcontroller ARM Mbed VHDL CTF Comma.ai CAN Bus Automotive ethernet CAN FD FlexRay DBC Files Opendbc The Car Hackers Handbook Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU Series - https://blopart1/ A...
053 - It's Hammer Time!
December 16, 2021 15:32 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBJen and Alvaro chat with Hash (@bitbangingbytes) about reverse engineering smart power meters! Check out Hash’s RECESSIM community as well as their Discord! Hash is also on TikTok @bitbangbytes. Here are some links: Remoticon presentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 Night rider lights Kinect reversing challenge ROS https://www.engadget.com/2010-11-29-neato-xv-11-robot-vacuum-gets-its-very-own-open-source-lidar-hac.html Tamper evident presentation by past guest Datagra...
052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook
October 26, 2021 13:54 - 2 hours - 87.1 MBIn this episode, we chat with @TubeTimeUS about reverse engineering sound cards, how the MOnSter 6502 came to be, the Snappy Video Snapshot, ethics in engineering, troubleshooting techniques, and much more! Here’s a detailed list to many of the things we talked about: Eric's Website (TubeTime.us) MoNSter 6502 PCB Reverse Engineering - Hackaday Supercon Presentation Cloning a Sound Card - Hardware.io Presentation Fermi Estimation Bunny Huang Bill Mensch NMOS logic I2C Vi...
051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names
October 05, 2021 05:22 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBOur guest, Jiska Classen (@naehrdine) is a security researcher at University of Darmstadt (why, yes you can specialize in Security here) and focuses on reverse engineering wireless things. She is a speaker at this year’s Hardwear.io. We did a deep dive on ROM patches on Broadcom chips. You'll want to listen to this episode if you are thinking about using iOS devices for your reversing. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/frankenstein (Jan Ruge) https://github.com/seemoo-lab/internalblue (...
050 - Four Years In
August 22, 2021 13:50 - 53 minutes - 36.4 MBIn our 50th episode, Jen and Alvaro chat about the podcast and a bunch of other random things. Alvaro’s book recommendation: https://thisishowtheytellmetheworldends.com/ AfterShokz Bone Conducting Headphones Hackaday Podcast Jiska(@naehrdine) and @ghidraninja(aka stacksmashing) have been hosting RE chats on twitter. Darknet Diaries Podcast Asahi Linux Progress Report (by @marcan42) Smart Meter Hacking(DEFCON 2021) by @bitbangingbytes from RECESSIM Article related to the 202...
049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time
July 11, 2021 02:29 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBThis episode Jen is hosting alone so she opted to focus on getting answers to all her Animal Crossing hacking questions by bringing in security researcher and reverse engineer, James Chambers. James discusses various projects including ones that aren’t video game based. James did a kick ass job of sharing pretty much every single link below to get you going on hacking keyboards and Nintendo so you don’t have to waste time web searching. Plus some of them include past guests so check them...
048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis
June 06, 2021 14:11 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBMark Manning joined us to talk about containers! Linux Namespaces chroot Docker Kubernetes The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes Hypervisor Hyper-v gvisor containerd runc podman Dockerfile Docker secrets Jessie Frazelle (Check out her blog too!) seccomp SELinux tar Whaler Docker Hub Mark’s ‘brick’ image. (Don’t run it!) K3s memenetes HomeAssistant Tamagotchi Cluster Heroku Tesla Kubernetes Cryptomining Interlock Rochester ...
047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars
May 16, 2021 15:26 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBJen and Alvaro chat about what they’ve been up to and a few interesting RE related reads. Alvaro was a guest in the embedded.fm podcast recently. Jen’s spray paint/stencil project AirTags Past guest Colin O'Flynn's teardown and hardware RE (Colin was on Episode 38) ghidraninja's Airtag FW RE Thread ghidraninja's AirTag RE Video Arbitrary data transmission via Apple's Find My network https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.02282.pdf nRF52 Debug Resurrection (APPROTECT Bypass) htt...
046 - Never Reveal the Prestige
March 18, 2021 05:53 - 1 hour - 69 MBCam Hackett and Lucien Brulé from Ramagine.com joined us to talk about their process of talking to a lot of security researchers and reverse engineers to develop a NSF report (why yes we are trying to find/get our hands on it) and how they used what they found to create their RE sharing tool. We tackle the world of RE from a different perspective which includes the importance of business development and what is market research. One of the largest takeaways they found was a 3.5 Million j...
045 - Rizin and Cutter
February 15, 2021 21:37 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBJen and Alvaro chat with Florian Märkl (metallic.software) and Itay Cohen (megabeets.net) about the open source reverse engineering tools Rizin and Cutter. Florian and Itay are part of the core development team for Rizin and Cutter, which forked from radare2 in December of 2020. To learn more about the project, check out the Rizin FAQ. For a quick getting started guide, check out the Rizin Book. Florian also recommends watching Arnau’s talks on beginner r2/Rizin concepts here: https:/...
044 - Scots Army Knife
January 03, 2021 22:28 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBPiotr Esden-Tempski from 1BitSquared joined us to chat about open hardware tools! Check out Glasgow on Crowd Supply! Piotr has previously joined us on episodes 13 and 17. Here are some links to the topics we discussed: Quad 4C Pick-and-place Neoden Pick-and-place Unexpected Maker’s Pick-and-play Playlist Blacmagic Probe floss-jtag OpenOCD ARM Debug Interface v5 GDB JLink Orbuculum cJTAG RISC-V iCEBreaker FPGA Claire Xen Wolf icestation-32 buspirate Glasg...
043 - Filling In Zeros
December 21, 2020 22:32 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBOur guest was Dmitry Grinberg who shared his pokewalker project which included a H8 family processor by Renasas. Read his detailed paper for more info. As we chatted about his previous projects (see episode 2), we discovered he has influenced others. We spend a lot of time chatting about different processor architectures and key choices in older ones (Really just 2, 8051 and 6502). He is officially our first repeat guest. See episode 2 to remember our previous chat. Dmitry mentioned...
042 - Diwali in the Morning
November 24, 2020 17:00 - 55 minutes - 39.1 MBAsmita Jha from Payatu gave an Intro to Firmware Reverse Engineering workshop during Remoticon and we followed up with her to dive deeper. She brought lists upon lists of resources and many we had not seen, make sure you check them out. Firmware Center - https://firmware.center/ IOT security 101 https://github.com/V33RU/IoTSecurity101 Strings Binwalk Trustzone -ARM Chipwhisperer ( But also see our interview with Colin) Azeria Labs Radare2 with various GUIs like Cutter Li...
041 - What did you fail at this week?
November 07, 2020 19:15 - 1 hour - 63 MBJen and Alvaro chat with Samy Kamkar about his new NAT Slipstreaming research and a lot more! Samy is the co-founder of Openpath Security. You can find him on twitter @samykamkar and on his website https://samy.pl. Here are links to some of the topics we covered: NAT Slipstreaming Mr. Robot draw.io DNS SIP Protocol HTTP Protocol OSI Layer IP Fragmentation RFCs IP Fragmentation RFC 791 WebRTC UPnP Netfilter Binwalk ALG IDA Pro Ghidra Rolljam - ...
040 - Uh-tastic
October 04, 2020 03:38 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBThis show we are going no guest and wanted to chat about the things that are coming up and what we are finding online to enrich our stuck at home lives. Conferences - HackADay - Remoticon with workshops by @TubeTImeUS - RE PCBs and @ShawnHymel - Tiny ML Unfortunately https://hardwear.io/ just ended but there were talks by past guests @johndmcmaster and Ken Shirriff Tutorials @Chris_Gammell from Amp Hour is extending his Contextual Electronics series to a pod/Vlog. John McMaster And ...
039 - Changing the Nature of Reality
September 13, 2020 18:11 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBJen and Alvaro chat with Natalie Silvanovich (http://natashenka.ca/) about Tamagotchis and reverse engineering. Project Zero Tamagotchi Virus Therapy Science Fair Project Blackberry Kwartzlab Travis Goodspeed GeneralPlus Mr. Blinky MyMeets SpritesMods - Tamagotchi Singularity and (Hackaday Supercon Talk Video) Tamagotchi 4U Android APK Apktool smali Unity androguard Adobe Flash Adobe AIR ECMAScript WebRTC PJSIP Check out Natalie’s Adventures in...
038 - My Favorite Random Number is 5
August 23, 2020 02:17 - 1 hour - 52 MBJen and Alvaro chat with Colin O’Flynn from NewAE Technology Inc about differential power analysis, fault injection, and more! Thank you again to all our new patrons! If you’d like to support the show, you can find us at https://www.patreon.com/unnamedre. Here are links to some of the things we talked about: http://colinoflynn.com/ https://rtfm.newae.com/ https://paulkocher.com/ https://paulkocher.com/doc/DifferentialPowerAnalysis.pdf https://twitter.com/travisgoodspeed ChipW...
037 - 2020 Survey Results
August 04, 2020 14:41 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBJen and Alvaro summarize the annual survey results and chat about the future of the show. Congratulations to Austin from Australia for winning the Analog Discovery 2! We’ve started a Patreon! If you’d like to donate to support the show, but don’t care for Patreon, you can also use PayPal to send funds to [email protected]. Here are some of the survey results: In your day to day life you are a: Top results: Software Engineer Hardware Engineer Security Engineer Firmware Engi...
036 - ADDVulcan - Hack-a-sat Part 1
July 20, 2020 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBIn today’s show, we chat with Amie DD and Will C about the Hack-a-sat challenge and team ADDVulcan. For details on the PSA by Rachel Tobac and WISP head over to https://www.wisporg.com and read about #ShareTheMicInCyber. You can donate to the campaign here. Our listener survey is still open. If you haven't already, please check it out! Here are links to some of the topics covered in the episode: https://www.hackasat.com/ ADDVulcan Github (Includes challenge solve write-ups) Disc...
035 - Giving it all away (Listener Survery)
July 04, 2020 23:02 - 6 minutes - 4.34 MBAs we close on the start of our 4th year, we want to check in with you, the audience to find out more about who you are, how we are are doing and what would make the podcast better. So please take a moment to take our 5 minute survey. If you opt to give us your email address you will be entered for a chance to win a Analog Discovery 2.
034 - Mechanical RE
June 23, 2020 03:29 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBAaron Moncur and Brandon Graham from Pipeline Design & Engineering (https://testfixturedesign.com/ and https://designtheproduct.com/) joined us to talk about mechanical reverse engineering. You can also check out their Being an Engineer Podcast. They might not have mentioned this during the show, but they have a bunch of great videos on their YouTube channel (including some on reverse engineering!) Here are links to some of the things we talked about: https://www.3dsystems.com/softw...
033 - All Over the Place
April 27, 2020 15:34 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBMachine Learning Class Digital clock project Alvaro’s T-shirt Quilt USB-C Power Project StepMania Evil Mad Scientist Labs Ship Anywhere Good Food List Artisan Cheese Online Knife Skills Class (For cutting food, not people) Jitsi Strange Parts 3-2-1 Backup Strategy Alvaro’s Letterbox’d Movies: Mood Indigo 3 Idiots Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary Moog Bon Appetit Reverse Engineering Hardwear.io Virtual Con April 30-May 1 Toorcam...
032 - High Molarity Rants
February 25, 2020 15:04 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBIn this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk with John McMaster about the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup and some of his other projects. MTVRE Patreon https://siliconpr0n.org/ Hardwear.io USA Mike Ryan Dmitry Grinberg Natalie Silvanovich RPI-SEC club Riscure John’s station wagon Swiss light source Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)
031 - The Title Isn’t DibbleDabble
December 27, 2019 08:25 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBYear end review of our favorite shows, what happened in the world, and what is next. Jennifer Wang - Harry Potter Talk From Supercon 2018 Frontline episode Season 38 Ep 5- “In the Age of AI” Xray van via @CreativeElctrn SEM awesomeness via @nanographs and siliconpron via @johndmcmaster Other podcasts that you might not know about (as opposed to just Amp Hour, Embedded.FM, and HackADay Podcast): Cybersecurity Sauna We need to talk about infosec Darknet diaries Opposabl...
030 - Supercon 2019
December 01, 2019 17:14 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBJen and Alvaro talked to a few folks at the 2019 Hackaday Superconference! Emily Velasco (@MLE_Online) Death Clock Hackaday Supercon Talk “Why You Should Create Ugly, Weird, and Annoying Things” Jasmine Brackett (@asiwatch) Tindie Spencer Owen’s RC2014 Murriel (@xmurriel) Timon (@timonsku) DLT One Hackaday Price Entry (And winner of the best design!) Sophy Wong’s Supercon Talk Mike Harrison’s “Everything I’ve Learnt About LEDs” Talk Have comments or suggestions for us? Fin...
029 - Old Timey Name Droppin’
October 17, 2019 03:37 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBWe welcomed Philip Freidin this week to the show to talk about his work in FGPAs and what kind of smart or least smart bets to take. We did spend some time to talk about how much Silicon Valley has changed by talking about cherries. Sunnyvale landmarks CJ Olson - for the cherries Libby Watertower Weird Stuff Book on Sunnyvale AMD2900 VLIW OSHChip @PhilipFreidin has a new instructional site set to be ready for 2020: DSP-for-KIDS.com (not to be confused with Kars for...
026a Easter Egg Extra
September 21, 2019 07:01 - 1 minute - 919 KBA listener of the show provided the long lost blog for the "leaked" C64. And word on the street is that TiltFive's Kickstarter is coming Tuesday morning September 24, 2019. Follow along on @tiltfive or signup on the mailing list if you didn't already miss the deadline.
028 - Everyone Has a Bag of Tricks
September 15, 2019 18:15 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBIn this interview, recorded at CCCamp19, Alvaro chats with Johnny Xmas (@J0hnnyXm4s, github) about reverse engineering TSA keys/locks, web APIs, and more! Malört Jenny List Target Breach Photo from our recording location ICS Stuxnet MS08-067 Deviant Ollam Deviant Ollam’s "I'll Let Myself In" Talk IronGeek TSA Keys Video TSA Key 3D Models on Github DarkSim905, J0hnny XMas, & Nite 0wl - The TSA Keys Leak [HOPE XI] “The laws of mathematics are very commendable” ...
027 - The Box
September 08, 2019 18:30 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBIn this two-part episode, Alvaro talks to three contestants of “The Box” contest at DEFCON 27 as well as Datagram, the creator of the contest. Alex, Gina, and Phil joined for the first part of the show and Datagram/DG for the second. DC27 Bomb Defusal Contest Rules Videos from the contest in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEabTPOXh04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEcVAcTfuVI “The Box” is part of the Tamper Evident Village. Check it out next time you’re at DEFCON! Have ...
026 - You Can Lose in so Many Colors!
August 31, 2019 02:59 - 2 hours - 85.1 MBJeri Ellsworth (@jeriellsworth) joins Jen and Alvaro to talk about her background, past projects, reverse engineering, and her company Tilt Five. Jeri was recently at Gen Con. Dirt Track Racing FPGAs Lattice Semiconductor CPLDs VHDL Verilog Betamax VHS Analog Delay Line Videocipher II C64 DTV C64 SID Chip [New Listener provided] C64 Leak Blog from 2004 Siliconpr0n Demoscene QVC Slashdot C64 Bull Riding Amiga Altera Binvis.io Lua @esden’s FP...
025 - Opaque Magisterium
August 14, 2019 23:21 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBAlvaro chats with Kate Temkin and Mikaela Szekely from GreatScottGadgets about USB Reverse engineering. Here are some of the things mentioned: HackRF Ubertooth Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum GreatFET Michael Ossmann Dominic Spill USB 2.0 Specification Beagle 480 libUSB pyUSB https://usbc.tf https://mini.usbc.tf usb-tools on Github USBProxy usbmon Sigrok Glasgow OpenVizsla Saleae Piotr Esden-Tempski 1BitSquared ViewSB Wireshark GreatFET Rh...
024 - Cars, Servers, and FPGAs!
July 15, 2019 03:08 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBRick Altherr joined Jen and Alvaro to talk about reverse engineering cars, server BMC’s, FPGA’s, and more! You can find Rick on Mastodon @kc8apf and on his website: http://www.kc8apf.net Rick will be giving trainings at RingZer0: https://www.ringzer0.training/system-firmware-attack-defense.html Here are some links about the topics we covered: https://eclypsium.com https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46352 DE-9/DB-9 Intel HEX Format S-Box EFI BIOS Real Mode PXE ROM ...
023 - Magic Moonbeams
July 08, 2019 23:09 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this episode, Alvaro talks to Major Malfunction at the Hardwear.io conference. Alvaro first saw his Magstripe Madness talk at Defcon 14 (slides). Magnasee F2F Encoding Magnetic Stripe Standards Hardpwn contest RFIDOt Proxmark 3 developed by Iceman (patreon) EMV Adam’s Github Adam’s Blog RFIDler (Kickstarter) HackRF FUNCube URH (Universal Radio Hacker) Scapy River Loop Sec’s KillerBee Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_...
022 - Bits Through the Microscope
June 30, 2019 14:50 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBIn another episode recorded at the Hardwear.io conference, Alvaro talked to Chris Gerlinksy(@akacastor) about ROM extraction and other IC reverse engineering tools/techniques. Here are links to some of the things/topics mentioned: Chris' Hardwear.io Talk Chris’ talk about cracking satellite and pay tv systems from 33C3 Micro-probing Wet Etching Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) John McMaster’s SiliconPr0n.org Implant ROM Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Reversing the Nintendo ...
021 - Silent Disco Wizards
June 23, 2019 14:31 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBIn this episode, Alvaro is joined by Jonathan Brossard to talk about the Witchcraft Compiler Collection during the Hardwear.io conference. We talked about various tools/topics including: Moabi - firmware security automation tool Change.org Breaking Bitlocker - Defcon 16 Whitepaper Rakshasa Hardware/Firmware Backdoor Defcon talk and slides PE Binaries ELF Files QEMU strace Ltrace Address Space Layout Randomization Silent Disco Icecast IMSI Catcher SilentPr...