I attended the Community Connections Night for the Electrical and Computer Engineering department last night. The students set up maybe 10 different stands to pitch their projects and highlight some of their student organizations. I’ve been volunteering with this group for almost 10 years now. In these 10 years, I’ve only seen maybe 1 or… Read More
New year, new vulnerabilities Reading the latest vulnerability report of the ESP32-C3 and C6, quite a popular chip these days, made me think about how to respond to such news. If you are an OEM, it might be “glad I don’t use the ESP32” or if you do it’s “OMG, what happened.” But really, neither… Read More
I gave a talk for the High Plains IEEE Chapter last week. The requested topic was an introduction to computer security. So I gave it go. The original abstract I came up with was a bit boring, so I asked chatgpt to re-write it in a kind of activist tone. There was no burning of… Read More
Josh is now providing training services with Advanced Security Training, which offers the best online format for live video streaming InfoSec training. He recently completed a 2-day class focusing on building secure designs for the Xilinx Zynq 7000. The exercises started with integrating XADC and concluded with a Buildroot based embedded Linux bringup with a… Read More
This week I was on the Amp Hour podcast! If you like embedded security, crazy stories about life on a submarine, want to hear a teaser on our upcoming CCC talk, or how to make blockchain beef, you should find something in here for you! 😉
Cryptotronix just celebrated its five year anniversary! This all started with the humble hashlet and now we have four employees covering embedded hardware (circuit design/PCB layout/RTL), firmware (MCU/Linux drivers/App development) and of course, security (audit/design/architecture/development).
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be speaking with two amazing colleagues, Dmitry Nedospasov and Thomas Roth, at the 35th Chaos Communication Congress next month in Leipzig, Germany. Our talk, wallet.fail covers the following: In this presentation we will take a look at how to break the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets. We will uncover… Read More
See you at the Hardware Attacks, Threats, Risks, and Mitigations class at Black Hat 2018! Read More
Josh was mentioned during the SparkFun AMA with CEO Nate Seidle and new CBDO Marcus Schappi. We announce the creation of debian.cryptotronix.com to host custom deb files for the CryptoCape. Read More
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