Serial Box - Primer for dealing with Serial and JTAG for basic hardware hacking

Presented at BSidesLV 2015, Aug. 5, 2015, 6:30 p.m. (25 minutes).

While serial interfaces and tools to easily make use of them are more widespread than ever. However, with the downfall of the serial modem as a common communication method and the omission of an RS232 serial port from most modern PC designs it is easy to have gotten into the tech industry without ever having touched a simple serial port. This talk is intended to be an intro to dealing with serial and JTAG and now it relates to hardware hacking.

Presenters:

• Matthew Jakubowski
  Longtime con goer, first time speaker. Always took things apart as a kid to figure out how they worked and in some cases how to get Linux onto them. Been responsible in many different areas of infosec: datacenter tech, sysadmining, defending systems in a SOC, and now he gets to break them professionally as a pentester. Not to be confused with The Jaku.

Links:

• https://bsideslv2015.sched.com/event/3ulJ/serial-box-primer-for-dealing-with-serial-and-jtag-for-basic-hardware-hacking
• https://infocon.org/cons/Security BSides/BSides Las Vegas/BSides Las Vegas 2015/Serial Box Primer for dealing with Serial and JTAG for basic hardware hacking Matthew Jakubowski.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImpWa3F2hKs

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