For most of my career as a software developer/security researcher I’ve romanticized ‘hardware hacking’. In my late teens and early twenties as I was learning about software development and software security I would occasionally buy Nuts and Volts from Microcenter and read Karl Lunt‘s Amateur Robotics column. Having devoured William Gibson‘s oeuvre in my late… [Read more…]
July 27, 2011
by slawlerguy
Beans recently (okay, it was MONTHS ago and I had this post pending in review since then) attended the Immunity INFILTRATE Conference in South Beach Miami, as well as the MASTER CLASS HACKING TRAINING. Unfortunately this Stephen rarely (if ever) takes photos of anything, so you won’t see pictures of Internet superstar hackers here. Instead… [Read more…]
Earlier this summer Beans attended the weeklong SMT Solver Summer school held at MIT campus in Boston, Mass. Over the last few years having seen some of the presentations by Pablo Sole on DEPLIB, blogposts by Sean Heelan, and having messed around a little bit with the REIL in BinNavi we were really curious to get a… [Read more…]
This summer Beans had the honor of speaking at SummerC0n in NYC. At SummerCon 2011 we debut’d a talk on Hardware Reverse Engineering with the help of Rajendra Umadras of Intrepidus Group. (This talk was given later in the summer at Recon 2011). SummerC0n is one of the older (maybe one of the oldest) “grassroots” infosec conferences with… [Read more…]
In 2011, I (Stephen A. Ridley) don’t plan on attending too many conferences that require far away travel for many reasons. 1) My work isn’t as interesting anymore ;-( and 2) I can’t travel as easily with Sammiches. With Boston being in the northeast (close to us) we decided we’d try SourceBoston out for the… [Read more…]
I had always wondered why spam looked the way it did. Is it written by people in the third world that don’t really know English? Why does the sentence structure look kinda correct but not quite? Do people really click the links in blogspam? What is all this hubbub about SEO? In this two part… [Read more…]
August 25, 2011
by s7ephen
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