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To conclude our series on the L0pht, it was important to reflect on the incident that they will be forever known for, the US Senate hearing.
[ continue ]IT Security Guru
It is more than 20 years since a group of Boston-based “makers and breakers” of IT equipment got into the same space and gave it the name “L0pht”.
[ continue ]Android Hacker’s Handbook
Recently, however, hacker/reverse engineer/developer Joe Grand created an open source hardware device called the JTAGulator. It allows a reverse engineer to easily iterate through all possible pinouts and thusly brute-force JTAG pinouts blindly!
[ continue ]The New Yorker
In February of 2008, Levandowski got a call from a producer of “Prototype This!,” a series on the Discovery Channel. Would he be interested in building a self-driving pizza delivery car? Within five weeks, he and a team of fellow Berkeley graduates and other engineers had retrofitted a Prius for the purpose. It would be the first time an unmanned car had driven legally on American streets.
[ continue ]Hackaday
Open any cell phone, router, or just about any moderately complex device today, and you’ll find test points. Quite often at least a few of these test points are the common JTAG / IEEE 1149.1 interface. Joe Grand has come up with a tool which we think will be useful to anyone trying to hack a physical device: The JTAGulator.
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