We talked to Jesse Michael (@jessemichael) and Mickey Shkatov(@hackingthings) about BIOS/UEFI reverse engineering and more! Here’s a list of some of the things we talked about: Eclypsium Driving Down the Rabbit Hole (DEFCON 25 talk about Nissan Leaf exploit) Intel WiGig BIOS Port 0x80 UEFI https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 for UEFI DediProg SF100(A…

Ian 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 Es…

We 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 Vir…

Jen 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.

Reverse 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 Pro…

No 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 Test…

Jen 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) …

Jen 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 @stacksmashing@infosec.exchange. Here are some links to the topics we covered: stacksmashing youtube channel Linux on iPod Airtag fault injection twitter …

David 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 Twitt…

Note: 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 snifferhttps://www.ellisys.com/produc…

Jen 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 s…

Mike 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 Ska…

Special 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 PREOR…

Michael 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-…

Oleg 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 Ol…

Laura 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: Pr…

Willem 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…

Jen 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/2…

In 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 Supe…

Our 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…

In 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 Li…

This 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 …

Mark 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 HomeA…

Jen 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 trans…

Cam 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 w…

Jen 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 …

Piotr 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…

Our 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 on…

Asmita 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 Binwa…

Jen 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 Fragme…

This 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…

Jen 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 smal…

Jen 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.new…

Jen 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 show@unnamedre.com. Here are some of the sur…

In 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 lin…

As 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.…

Aaron 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 YouTu…

Machine 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 Doc…

In 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 t…

Year 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 jus…

Jen 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…

We 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 @…

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 …

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:/…

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 …

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 usbmo…

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…

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 H…

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 Che…