Secure Computation Laboratory

Highlights of Black Hat USA 2017 and DEF CON 2017 (II) : Hardware Hacking

Speaker: Chenglu Jin

According to the result of all the votes, our series of talks about black hat and DEF CON will start with hardware hacking section. It contains five different topics:

1. Breaking Bitcoin Hardware Wallets
2. Attacking encrypted USB keys the hard(ware) way
3. EVILSPLOIT - A UNIVERSAL HARDWARE HACKING TOOLKIT
4. Hacking Hardware with a $10 SD Card Reader
5. aking DMA Attacks to the Next Level: How to do arbitrary reads/writes in a live and unmodified system using a rogue memory controller".

In this talk, you will learn

1. how the fault injection works on bitcoin hardware wallets
2. what kind of vulnerabilities you can find in the current encrypted USB keys
3. how to do port identification and manipulation of a chip automatically
4. how to exploit the simplicity of eMMC communication protocol
5. why we can have backdoor access to a DRAM we can get from the back side of the mother board