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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

Cybercrime Magazine Podcast

Kingpin Speaks

Joe Grand – also known as “Kingpin” – is a … [ continue ]

The Verge

Cracking a $2 Million Crypto Wallet

First, he forgot his PIN – then he started looking … [ continue ]

The Virtual CISO Podcast

How Hardware Hackers Exploit IoT Vulnerabilities w/ Joe ...

You’ve probably heard the hype: IoT is the next frontier … [ continue ]

OnTrack: The PCB Design Podcast

Design Your Electronic Device with a Hacker State of Mind

Today’s guest is Joe Grand, a computer engineer, inventor, teacher, … [ continue ]

Cool Tools

Joe Grand

In each episode of the Cool Tools Show, Kevin Kelly … [ continue ]

The BarCode Podcast

Kingpin with Joe Grand

Joe Grand aka Kingpin talks us through how he is … [ continue ]

Hackaday

Open Source Pizza Compass Will Show You The Way

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow has an enchanted … [ continue ]

Malicious Life

'L0pht', Part 2 - The End

In the early days, the L0pht guys tinkered with what … [ continue ]

Press

Hackaday

Joe [Kingpin] Grand Keynote And ...

Hamish & Andy

Episode 161

Business Insider

I'm a hacker who helps people ...