Cyber UL Could Become Reality Under Leadership of Hacker Mudge

UPDATE–One of the longstanding problems in security–and the software industry in general–is the lack of any universally acknowledged authority on quality and reliability. But the industry moved one step closer to making such a clearinghouse a reality this week when Peiter Zatko, a longtime...

Joe Grand on Hardware Hacking and the JTAGulator

Dennis Fisher talks with Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio about his current project, the JTAGulator, which helps hardware hackers find the OCD connections on devices. They also discuss Joe’s hardware-hacking background and the current resurgence of hardware research. Download: digitalunderground123...

Joe Grand on the DEFCON Badge, Hacking Parking Meters and the Hazards of Security Research

Dennis Fisher talks with Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio about the design for this year’s DEFCON badge, the secret feature he added that no one has uncovered yet and his research on hacking smart parking meters. Download SHOW NOTES: Hacking The Defcon 2009 Badge Subscribe to the Digital Undergroun...

Joe Grand on hardware hacking

In this Network World interview at SOURCE Boston, well-known hardware hacker Joe ‘Kingpin’ Grand talks about lessons rom the “Prototype This” show, the changing face of security research and his upcoming vulnerability assessment work. The video also includes an interview with Dan Kaminsky about h...