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009 - T0015! Part 0x2: All Ur sigs R belong to uS.

Reverse Engineering Tools - Signal Measurement

15 Apr 2018

In this episode, we talked about measuring things (Well mostly digital and some analog things)!

Perhaps we missed your favorite tool or you had questions and comments about our list, find us on twitter @unnamed_show ,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com and tell us.

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

008 - T0015! Part 0x1

Reverse Engineering Tools - Intro

09 Mar 2018

This week are we talking about tools to get you through different situations. Both of share our list of items to tackle a few common situations. By no means is this extensive but it doesn’t focus exclusively on software .

Perhaps we missed your favorite tool or you had questions and comments about our list, find us on twitter @unnamed_show ,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com and tell us.

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

007 - Candy Coated

An Interview with M. Carlton from Senrio

03 Jan 2018

M. Carlton joined us to talk about being part of leading professional reverse engineering team at Senr.io . We discussed her Embedded Systems talk about IoT and in particular Devil’s Ivy (Check out the important ROP video to better understand the key concept ). In this particular case, they found that the M300 camera model using GSOAP ( SOAP ) parse for buffer overflow.

Not only did this issue allow spread quickly as a DOS among the M300 cameras but over 200 other Axis cameras (Hurray for code-reuse) due to using the third party code library.

M. uses several tools in her work:

  • IDA Pro
  • Binwalk
  • Nmap
  • Debuggers like gdb
  • Multimeters and oscilloscopes
  • VMWare

She had some excellent suggestions for improving the odds of NOT getting hacked:

  1. Put a password on any consoles and let it be changeable.
  2. Anticipate issues by performing security reviews.
  3. Be wary of any third party libraries you use. If there are updates to these libraries, prepare to update quickly.
  4. Make sure your systems are field patchable/updateable, securely.
  5. Limit surface area. Limit the ability for others to analyze your system by removing/disabling consoles, UARTs, features, and JTAG interfaces.
  6. Put more gates/obstacles on how easily any found exploits can be used in the system.
  7. Unearth any default credentials used in your system and resolve.

In the worse case, plan in advance for a security breach to expedite deployment.

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

006 - Marketing Via Stickers

End of the year update

06 Dec 2017

A quick year end update and feedback show from just the hosts.

We cover  the Hackaday Superconference where we handed out stickers (track us down to get one of the last few). Key highlights that Alvaro missed first hand were:

We talked briefly about the ask for resources for getting started on the hardware side. If you have suggestions to share, email us!

In the meanwhile Mountain view reverse engineering meetup is happening December 12th in the new location.

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

005 - Circuits That Go Nowhere

An Interview with Ken Shirriff

06 Nov 2017

This week we were joined by the incredible IC reverse engineer, Ken Shirriff . You may know him from his Hack A Day Super Conference talk in 2016 or his blog ’s many posts ( Counterfeit chips , ARM 1 chip , and Sinclair Calculator ). We covered quite a number of restorations ( Visual6502 project , 8008 microprocessor - Ken’s restoration details )

He is currently working the Xerox Alto Restoration and we talked not only about the hardware but the microcode and software restoration. Software languages we touched on were the C predecessor, BCPL and object oriented language Smalltalk . There are number of resources out there restoring and archiving computing history:

Resources for getting started with analog circuits at transistor level:

  • “ Microelectronics Circuits ” Sedra and Smith (covers all your favorite circuits like current mirroring)
  • Start with die photos… analyzing is much smaller and easier
  • When finally working hands on cheap acids for consumer hobbyists (aka glass etchers)  also work on ICs to remove layers
  • LTSpice (circuit simulator and product that gives Jen college-aged anxiety)

HackaDay Superconference coming up. Everyone on the show ( here and here )  have spoke at this conference. Ken and Alvaro will be there!

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