Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

A 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.

In 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...

In 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...

Jeri 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 Bu...

Alvaro 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-Tem...

Rick 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/p...

In 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   Ha...

In 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...

In 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 La...

In this episode, Alvaro interviews contestants and organizers of the Hardwear.io CTF challenge First, we're joined by two members of the OpenToAll CTF team. Graziano and Antonius. The second segment is with one of the creators of the CTF challenge, Philippe Teuwen( @doegox ) from Quarkslab . The third segment was with Team Pineapple. Other topics mentioned/covered: https://csaw.engineering.nyu.edu...

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 get...

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: Application Binary Interfaces Dissasemblers The Sharp X68000 computer IDA radare Virt-manager obj...

Jen and Alvaro were at the 2018 Hackaday Superconference ! Sorry for the audio quality, we recorded in a fairly loud environment. Sarah Petkus and Mark Koch http://zoness.com Digital Calipers SHE BON project Solstice Rick Altherr http://www.kc8apf.net Hex Fiend Ruth Grace Wong & Joe Rozner Piotr Esden & Dominc Spill Black Magic Probe HackRF One Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitt...

Jen and Alvaro were at the 2018 Hackaday Superconference ! Sorry for the audio quality, we recorded in a fairly loud environment . Chris Svec - http://chrissvec.com SEGGER J-Link Josh Lifton from Crowd Supply . Open Steno Project Python Richard Whitney from the Happy Robot Company Hot air rework station Alex Glow from Hackster Charmware Gator Grip Socket Chris Gammell from The Amp Hour Contextual...

Alvaro was at Toorcamp and DEFCON . Chris from The Amp Hour and Jack from the Darknet Diaries podcast were also there. Jen went to the Vintage Computer Festival Alvaro and Jen will both be at the Hackaday Superconference this year. Call for papers is still open !!! Hardware Developers Didactic Galactic and the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup A listener, David , wrote up his process for re...

Alvaro and Gareth talked to Joe Grand on the ferry back from Toorcamp . Here are links to most of the things we talked about: San Juan Islands Burning Man Burn in the Forest CCCamp EMF Camp The L0pht DEFCON 14 Badge Saleae Logic Analyzer Bus Pirate Xeltek device programmer JTAGulator Joe's Hardware Hacking Training BusBlaster JDEC Standard Manufacturer's Identification Codes (login required) BSDL...

Alvaro , Gareth and Piotr talked to Schneider about Iridium satellite protocol reverse engineering. (And other fun things) Here are links to most of the stuff we talked about. They're mostly in chronological order. Iridium Satellite CCCamp HackRF EasterHegg 2010 Openbeacon project r0ket Badge rad1o Badge Check out Schneider's talks at CCC: Iridium Pager Hacking @ 31C3 Iridium Update @ 32C3 Iridium...

Alvaro and guest co-host Gareth( @gareth__ )  talked to Jared Boone( @sharebrained ) about interactive television, blu-ray authoring, optical media, cheese, the HackRF portapack, and much more. Recorded during Toorcamp 2018. Links to some of the things we talked about: https://www.sharebrained.com/ The Chronulator Advanced Television Ken Pohlmann's Principles of Digital Audio Talkboy RSA500 Series...

This week Mike Ryan ( @mpeg4codec ) joins us to talk about how he went from hacking games for stronger characters (we don't reveal which ones; you'll have to listen) to revealing big weaknesses in Bluetooth products. Mike gives us the rundown on how he ended up working on UbertOOth ,  using wireshark , and how many UbertEEth you should use.  We discuss some of the biggest mistakes developers make...

This week we talk about the nebulous world of debugging interfaces, some of their history, and how they can be used in reverse engineering. We cover the basics of what are JTAG and SWD ( both ARM Debug Access Port (DAP) and ARM® Debug Interface Architecture Specification ) and can they both be used to debug a MIPS processor (the answer is NO!). We list a few other standards but also some key vendo...

In this episode, we talked about measuring things (Well mostly digital and some analog things)! Digital Multimeter Oscilloscope Passive vs active probes Current probes Logic Analyzers Saleae Logic Mentioned on the Embedded.fm podcast Episode 2 Now with Real Time View ! Analog Discovery 2 Sigrok ( Supported Logic Analyzers ) Bitscope BusPirate Perhaps we missed your favorite tool or you had questio...

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 . Program extraction - Debuggers/Programmers/Readers Segger J-Link/J-Trace BlackMagicProbe ST-Link BusBlaster JTAGulator TL866 Universal Programmer Decoding the data - Binary Analy...

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 all...

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: Michael Ossmann and Dominic Spill on IR RE Samy Kamkar talked about car remote RE See many more talks here Spotify playlist from the conference. We talked briefly about the a...

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...