Debug to Root: A Friendly Introduction to Hardware Hacking
How secure are the embedded and IoT devices running in your environment? This hands-on workshop covers hardware hacking fundamentals, from identifying key components and interacting with debug interfaces to extracting firmware and finding vulnerabilities in real devices.
Nowadays, embedded and IoT devices play an important role in corporate and industrial environments, and even in our homes. Some of them are responsible for critical tasks. But how secure are they?
In this workshop, viewers will learn the fundamentals of hardware hacking, including how to identify the main components of a physical device, such as the primary processor, flash memory, debug interfaces, and other key hardware elements. Additionally, viewers will become familiar with using both hardware and software tools to analyze signals and interact with debug ports, interfaces, and ICs for tasks such as extracting firmware, obtaining root access to a device, or understanding how the device works. Finally, viewers will learn techniques for analyzing device firmware to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
