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Joe Grand Writes Foreword for The Hardware Hacking Handbook

Tuesday, Nov 16th, 2021

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has contributed the foreword for The Hardware Hacking Handbook: Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks. Written by Jasper van Woudenberg and Colin O’Flynn, the book explores the designs of embedded systems and the techniques required for executing effective hardware attacks. Through the foreword, Joe … [ continue ]

Joe Grand Writes Foreword for Manual PCB-RE: The Essentials

Saturday, Aug 14th, 2021

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has contributed the foreword for Manual PCB-RE: The Essentials. Written by Keng Tiong Ng, the book follows the process of reverse engineering a real-world, complex printed circuit board from start to finish. Through the foreword, Joe provides encouragement to readers as they begin … [ continue ]

DEFCON 27 Badge Turned Into Social Distancing Reminder

Monday, Sep 14th, 2020

Grand Idea Studio has created a social distancing reminder using the DEFCON 27 Badge. In 2019, the badge was the official attendee badge for DEFCON, the world’s largest and oldest continuously running hacker conference. It served as a game for attendees to play during the event and interacted with … [ continue ]

Altium Stories Features Joe Grand

Thursday, Feb 6th, 2020

Altium Stories, created by global engineering software company Altium, is a YouTube series that highlights today’s innovators and designers. Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio is featured in an episode entitled “Confessions of a Hacker known as Kingpin,” which explores his relationship with hacking, technology, engineering, and … [ continue ]

In Support of Right to Repair

Monday, Feb 11th, 2019

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has written a public letter in support of Right to Repair. Right to Repair is a grassroots effort to fight against the closed, monopolized repair tactics of many modern technology vendors and to raise bipartisan awareness of the need for consumers to … [ continue ]

Press

Hackaday

Mustachioed Nintendo Virtual Boy Gone Augmented Reality

Mustache Mayhem is built into a Nintendo Virtual Boy housing. … [ continue ]

IHS Engineering360

Cyber Threats and the Wired Vehicle: Cause for Concern?

High-tech, interconnected systems are becoming almost ubiquitous in automobiles. These … [ continue ]

Hackaday

Deconstructing PCBs

The surest way to reverse engineer a circuit is to … [ continue ]

Gizmodo

How Creeps Will Use the Internet to Break into Your Home

Your refrigerator is sending spam. Your front door is running … [ continue ]

SearchSecurity.com

2014 Security 7 Winners Announced

What makes a Security 7 award winner? In our 10th … [ continue ]

Hackaday

Joe Grand Talks Deconstructing Circuit Boards

The Hackaday crew are safely back from DEFCON and not … [ continue ]

Hackaday

Judge Spotlight: Joe Grand

We’ve been fascinated by Joe Grand for years. His early … [ continue ]

Embedded Podcast

Use These Powers for Good

Joe Grand spoke with us about his life as Kingpin, … [ continue ]

Press

Hackaday

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Hamish & Andy

Episode 161

Business Insider

I'm a hacker who helps people ...