hardwear.io USA 2019
2019-06-11..2019-06-14
Santa Clara, United States
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome Note | Antriksh Shah | 03m |
Conference aims to build a practical bridge between hardware hackers and silicon vendors, arguing hardware hacking must become more approachable and taught not… | ||
| Exposing The Deep-Secure Elements Of Smartcards | Christopher Tarnovsky | 40m |
Reverse engineering targets a Samsung printer smartcard IC by mechanically and chemically stripping layers, imaging with a scanning electron microscope, and… | ||
| Bits From The Matrix: Optical ROM Extraction | Chris Gerlinsky | 45m |
Shows an end-to-end optical ROM extraction workflow: fuming nitric acid decap, wet etch with hydrofluoric acid (wink rust stain remover as a dilute HF… | ||
| OverTime: Remote Timing Attacks Against IoT Devices | Cristofaro Mune | 50m |
Claims that slow‑clock IoT devices yield exploitable timing side channels and demonstrates a working toolchain: UDP server on an Arduino Uno (16 MHz) with a… | ||
| Bluetooth Hacking: Tools And Techniques | Mike Ryan | 51m |
Concrete reverse‑engineering steps and outcomes: uses Android HCI logging and Wireshark to capture pre‑encryption HCI dumps; heart monitor leaks RR intervals… | ||
| Cloning A Sound Card | Eric Schlaepfer | 40m |
Reverse engineers recreate the 1989 Sound Blaster 1.0 from two hi‑res photos, trace both PCB layers in KiCad, and order alleged Creative/Intel 8051 mask‑ROM… | ||
| Nationally Critical Infrastructure needs Secure Hardware | Dr. Joseph Kiniry | 59m |
DARPA’s SIF program funds open RISC‑V designs that implement concrete mitigations and formal proofs rather than vague promises: teams build 18 CPUs on Xilinx… | ||
| Hardware Security By Design | Jonathan Valamehr, Dr. Joseph Kiniry, Shawn Hoffman, Jon Callas, Robert Van Spyk, Christopher Harrell | 44m |
Panelists argue that real progress comes from concrete practices not platitudes: teams adopt pre-silicon security verification and automation, use formal… | ||
| Hack To Discover Weaknesses In A Series Of Smartcards | Christopher Tarnovsky | 01h 03m |
Old smartcards get fully reverse‑engineered with practical hacks: large optical maps at 100–150× optical imaging find instruction registers and data buses… | ||
| Low-Cost IC Emission Reverse Engineering | John McMaster | 40m |
Demonstrates that visually correlating 1100nm infrared emissions to logic is practical with low-cost gear: a back-illuminated CMOS or cooled CCD with the IR… | ||
| Speculative execution vulnerabilities | Raoul Strackx | 48m |
The talk explains speculative execution vulnerabilities in modern CPUs, naming Spectre, Meltdown and Foreshadow/L1TF as examples, and describes how these… | ||
| Integrated Circuit Offensive Security | Olivier Thomas | 45m |
Shows a practical IC offensive flow: chemical and CMP thinning, SEM imaging producing ~200 GB per project, automated feature extraction into a VHDL netlist… | ||
| Unique Challenges Of Security Programs For Hardware/IoT Makers | Cory Scott, Adam Laurie, Hemant Raju, Maggie Jauregui, Mike Shema | 41m |
Panel lists practical steps: companies run private bug bounty programs and ship devices to vetted researchers, open-source Wireshark decoders and protocol… | ||
| Top 10 Secure Boot Mistakes | Jasper van Woudenberg | 47m |
Top ten failure modes in secure boot appear as concrete, reproducible flaws: missing signature checks for headers and pointers, insecure firmware-update paths… | ||
| CTF Winner And Announcements | Hardwear.io Crew | 09m |
A hardware CTF runs 21 challenges across reballing, automotive puzzles, bump-to-reverse, 3D printing defuse, RFID and TEMPEST HDMI capture, with 15 of 21… | ||
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