Hardware Hacking

Are you interested in this area of research? If you’ve followed some of my work you know I enjoy a combination of fundamental research & hands-on practical experiences. It led me to co-found NewAE Technology Inc out of my PhD, with the objective of taking…

If you’ve seen my presentations anytime over the past few years, you’ll know the introduction about “PhD Student at Dalhousie University finishing ‘soon’” has been the claim for the past several years. Finally ‘soon’ actually happened! You can see my complete…

This is just a quick blog post to update you on some rather interesting research that will be coming out led by Eyal Ronen. At Black Hat USA 2016 I did some teardown of the Philips Hue system, and described the possibility of a lightbulb worm. Check this…

At Black Hat 2016 I presented on some reverse engineering of the Philips Hue (also see my other post about getting root on it, which was part of that presentation). If you were at the talk, you would have also seen mention that you'll want to keep your eyes…

This is a quick post to link to slides from my Black Hat USA 2016 work. This work stands directly on the work done by Joffrey Czarny & Raphaël Rigo presented at HardWear.io last year (2015). They discovered the issues w.r.t. the stream-mode cipher being used…

On Friday at 14:15 I’m giving a talk about my open-source power analysis and glitching projected called ChipWhisperer at SEC-T. Here is some useful links if you watched the presentation: PDF of Presentation Slides [4MB] Link to Kickstarter Link to…