Manufacturing Hardware Implants from Idea to Mass Production: A Hacker's Journey

Presented at Black Hat Europe 2020 Virtual, Dec. 9, 2020, 1:30 p.m. (30 minutes)

This presentation wants to be a motivational talk for all those hackers out there that always wanted to share some cool hacking devices with the community but didn't know how to deal with R&D, Quality Assurance, and Mass Production. In this talk, I will be presenting the entire life-cycle of a couple of hacking toys I developed: WHID Injector & WHID Elite. From their inception to release in production, passing through some blockers and failures I encountered during the journey.<br><br>Why is this topic interesting you ask… Easy! Both R&D processes that I used were not backed by any crowdsourcing fund and the sale of these devices is not going in any form to me. I am just doing this as hobby, fun and (most importantly) I believe in giving back something to the InfoSec community without making any profit out of it.<br><br>What about listening to how I did it and then trying yourself? There will also be examples of other hackers, inspired by my adventure who followed my example and started similar not-for-profit projects.

Presenters:

• Luca Bongiorni - Head of Offensive Security, Bentley Systems
  Luca Bongiorni is working as Head of Offensive Security at Bentley Systems. He is also actively involved in InfoSec where his main fields of research are: Radio Networks, Reverse Engineering, Hardware Hacking, Internet of Things, and Physical Security. He also loves to share his knowledge and present some cool projects at security conferences around the globe: Black Hat Europe & USA Arsenal, TROOPERS, HackInParis, DEF CON USA, HackInBo, DEF CON Moscow, OWASP Chapters, SAS, etc. At the moment, he is focusing his researches on bypassing biometric access control systems, ICS security, and Air-Gapped environments.

Links:

• https://www.blackhat.com/eu-20/briefings/schedule/#manufacturing-hardware-implants-from-idea-to-mass-production-a-hacker39s-journey-21198

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