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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

CBS 58 Milwaukee

Can your life get hacked?

New technology makes life more convenient, but it could be … [ continue ]

Information Security

Marcus Ranum decodes hardware vulnerabilities with Joe Grand

Computer hardware designs with dangerous security flaws? That’s no surprise … [ continue ]

Decipher

'Nothing's Going to Last Forever': An Oral History of the ...

As the 1990s drew to a close, the curtain was … [ continue ]

Decipher

Thirty Minutes or Less: An Oral History of the L0pht, Part 3

By the beginning of 1998, the national media had decided … [ continue ]

Decipher

'Microsoft Was Freaking Out': An Oral History of the L0pht, ...

As the L0pht began to coalesce and become more well-known … [ continue ]

Decipher

'We've Got to Be Cool About This': An Oral History of the ...

In the beginning, there was a hat factory. Factory is … [ continue ]

Pentester Academy TV

Hardware Security Training

The Pentester Academy TV (PATV) team … [ continue ]

PCMag

Joe 'Kingpin' Grand on Hacker History

Grand testified before Congress in the 90s, has appeared on … [ continue ]

Press

Hackaday

Joe [Kingpin] Grand Keynote And ...

Hamish & Andy

Episode 161

Business Insider

I'm a hacker who helps people ...