Intro to hardware hacking by Lennert Wouters: When the attacker has the device in hand. 👨🏻💻🔬📟⚡🏆
Security researcher and hardware hacking legend Lennert Wouters gave a presentation last month introducing hardware hacking and embedded-device security. If you don’t know Lennert’s work - ask your favorite GenAI. :)
What’s inside:
Side-channel attacks: use power consumption, electromagnetic emissions, sound, or even tiny photon emissions to extract secrets
Fault injection: disturb voltage, clock, electromagnetic fields, temperature, or use lasers to make a chip spit out the secrets
Chip imaging and reverse engineering: use X-rays, optical microscopes, or electron microscopes to learn chip internals
Microprobing and focused ion beams: directly observe and modify microscopic signals and structures inside a semiconductor
... and more.
The strongest idea in the talk (for me) is how and why physical possession changes the security model. I lacked this argument in a few very important conversations in my career - don’t repeat my mistakes.
Huge opportunity to learn not only the basics, but also the context and way of thinking. Enjoy learning, and please share with your colleagues and friends.
More details:
An Introduction to Hardware Hacking - Tools and Techniques [Youtube]: https://lnkd.in/dMiPzzbx
