019 - It's Still Not Magic

An interview with Holly Graceful

06 Apr 2019

This week, Holly Graceful ( @HollyGraceful , gracefulsecurity.com ) joined us to talk about her recent hardware reverse engineering blog series and her pen(etration) testing and security career in both public and private sectors. She tells us about how she entered the field via the military and some of those differences.

We discussed breaking down projects into smaller bites. We talk about why getting access to the JTAG (use it for ...) port can be super easy in the consumer product and it may be more calculated than expected. The series ends with some key fob fun.

We do a minor round up of software defined radio and the USRP used with gnuradio . We catch up on what Alvaro is doing with his SDRs.

Holly is working on more posts so stay follow to be updated with the latest.

Links that came up:

Pulse view logic analyzer
Michael Ossmann (of Great Scott Gadgets ) tutorials ( one of many)
Cheap: Jtag on arduino , Black Magic Probe , CortexProg
Expensive: Jtagulator , Segger Jlink
Radio posts/tutorial - by Oona Räisänen @Windyoona ( Website )

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Music by TeknoAxe ( http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe )

018 - Ghidra

An Interview with Thomas Daede

15 Mar 2019

Thomas Daede joined us after the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup to talk about Ghidra . Ghidra is the NSA’s newly-released-to-the-public software reverse engineering tool.

The source has not yet been released, but there’s a Ghidra Github placeholder .

Some of the other things we talked about:

Thomas also mentioned @marcan42 ’s example of comparing his own PowerPC code with Ghidra’s decompiled output .

CrowdSupply’ s Teardown conference is coming up in Portland, June 21-23.

BlackHoodie will be back in the SF Bay Area in April .

Women in Security and Privacy ( @wisporg ) has a scholarship program for DEFCON. You can apply for the scholarship online. They’ll cover the DEFCON ticket as well as a $500 stipend for travel/accommodation. If you want to help, you can donate here . Thanks to @RachelTobac for spreading the word! As of this episode, there are 58 scholarships available!

Jen mentioned @pinkflawd’ s tweet about ELF binaries .

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