firmware-analysis

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy·13 min

• IEEE SP
• Hardware
• Date: 2025
• Location: Ieee Sp

Presenters detail vulnerability discovery and exploitation in DICE: Automatic Emulation of DMA Input Channels for Dynamic Firmware Analysis.

RSAC Cybersecurity·46 min

• RSAC
• Hardware
• Date: 2023
• Location: Rsa

Engineers explore architecture and security mechanisms for Firmware Analysis Challenges in Modern IP-Based Surveillance Technologies.

PancakesCon·41 min

• COMMUNITY
• Hardware
• Date: 2022
• Location: Community

Intro to Firmware Analysis · Japanese Book Binding

1 - netspooky - Intro to Firmware Analysis & Japanese Book Binding.

IoT Village·28 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2019
• Location: Las Vegas

Lee Brotherston

"The IoT industry is often lambasted for lax security, it faces unique challenges. This talk brings expertise from a veteran security engineer who has spent the last few months embedded (pun intended) in an IoT manufa...

IoT Village·44 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2019
• Location: Las Vegas

Daniel Wegemer

We will show how the Fitbit ecosystem works based on the Fitbit Flex and Fitbit Charge HR as well as the Fitbit Ionic smartwatch. We also show how we modified the firmware of the Fitbit Flex and discuss several vulner...

IoT Village·29 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2019
• Location: Las Vegas

Maxwell Dulin

"This talk will convey the hacking methodology that took place in order to find the vulnerabilities within the Zyxel NAS 326, including some fun dives into the technical weeds. Note: despite how critical security flaw...

IoT Village·46 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2019
• Location: Las Vegas

Dennis Giese

"Remember the good old fun sport, where people bought random hard drives from eBay and did forensics on them? Did you know you can do the same thing with used IoT devices too? Most end-users have no idea what kind of ...

IoT Village·44 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2019
• Location: Las Vegas

Rick Ramgattie

Internet of Things (IoT) devices have always been vulnerable to a variety of security issues. In 2013, Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) performed research on IoT devices that showed how rich feature sets could be...

Car Hacking Village·34 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2018
• Location: Las Vegas

Phil Lapczynski

ECU firmware extraction and bootloader vulnerabilities in automotive systems.

IoT Village·29 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2018
• Location: Las Vegas

John Dunlap

In this talk, reverse engineer and security expert John Dunlap will present security hazards concerning the ever expanding use of Field Programmable Gate Array systems. FPGA’s are reconfigurable computers that allow p...

IoT Village·47 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2018
• Location: Las Vegas

Dennis Giese

Many IoT devices use an ARM Cortex-M based MCU and run some kind of RTOS/"bare metal" OS. In comparison to Linux-based firmwares it is a lot more difficult to modify the firmware. If you want to change the functionali...

IoT Village·29 min

• DEF CON
• Policy
• Date: Aug 2018
• Location: Las Vegas

Stephen Hilt

IoT connected devices are being released at a staggering rate. According to Gartner it’s speculated that by the end of 2018, there will be 11.2 billion IoT devices currently connected at any given time. A large part o...

Car Hacking Village·32 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2017
• Location: Las Vegas

Sheila Ayelen Berta · Claudio Caracciolo

Reverse engineering and exploitation of vehicle embedded systems and automotive hardware.

IoT Village·32 min

• DEF CON
• Blue Team
• Date: Aug 2017
• Location: Las Vegas

Dan Regalado

The Infusion Pumps Market is expected to be worth $10.84 Billion USD by 2021 per "Market and Markets" forecast. The Infusion Pump is a costly and sensitive medical device used to deliver fluids, medications, blood and...

IoT Village·37 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2017
• Location: Las Vegas

Andrew Tierney, Ken Munro

What Mirai missed:

Main Stage·43 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2016
• Location: Las Vegas

Zack Fasel · Erin Jacobs

Zack Fasel and Erin Jacobs demonstrate reverse engineering and exploiting widespread connected consumer devices, revealing critical design and firmware vulnerabilities.

Main Stage·40 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2013
• Location: Las Vegas

Flipper

Flipper details 10,000 Yen into the Sea FLIPPER The use of a pressure housing in an underwater vehicle can be difficult to implement without becoming a cost-center.

Main Stage·22 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2013
• Location: Las Vegas

Todd Manning · Zach Lanier

Todd Manning and Zach Lanier explores gopro or gtfo a tale of reversing an embedded system at DEF CON 21, examining firmware-analysis and practical defenses.

Main Stage·22 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Jul 2012
• Location: Las Vegas

Ang Cui

Ang Cui explores embedded device firmware vulnerability hunting using frak at DEF CON 20, examining firmware-analysis and practical defenses.