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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

Infosecurity Magazine

L0pht Reunite to Find Security Unimproved

Reuniting six members of the L0pht hacker team at the [ continue ]

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

014 - Ferrycast

Alvaro and Gareth talked to Joe Grand on the ferry back from ToorCamp. [ continue ]

Supplyframe

HDDG 31: Tech-Fashion, Wearables, OpticSpy, Oh My!

Technology embedded in our clothing and optical data transmissions. What … [ continue ]

Hackaday

Joe Grand is hiding data in plain sight

Joe walked us through the OpticSpy, his newest hardware product that … [ continue ]

The Parallax

20 years on, L0pht hackers return to D.C. with dire warnings

It was not the usual Congressional scene in room 2237 … [ continue ]

Washington Post

These hackers warned Congress the internet was not secure. ...

Twenty years ago this week, a collective of young hackers … [ continue ]

Decipher

Time, and the L0pht, March On

When seven young men from Boston wearing borrowed or newly … [ continue ]

Politico

Famed hacker collective reunites on Hill today

Congress today hosts an event commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the first … [ continue ]

Press

Hackaday

Joe [Kingpin] Grand Keynote And ...

Hamish & Andy

Episode 161

Business Insider

I'm a hacker who helps people ...