Hardware Podcasts

020 - Hardwear.io CTF Interviews

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast · 16 Jun 2019 · 29m

What this episode covers

Alvaro interviews Graziano and Antonius from the OpenToAll CTF team, Philippe Teuwen (Dogox) from Quarkslab, and Team Pineapple about the Hardwear.io CTF. The contestants discuss specific challenges including micro-soldering BGA chips, RFID/NFC brute-forcing, 3D-printed lock picking, and passive Tempest-style attacks on HDMI cables. Philippe Teuwen explains how Quarkslab designs these hardware-oriented challenges to demonstrate their reverse engineering capabilities to clients.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Quarkslab
Tools
Teensy, Arduino, AVRdude, USB ASP
Also
Hardwear.io, OpenToAll CTF, Team Pineapple

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