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New site, and new training offerings! Looking for training in 2024? Reach out! voidstarsec.com voidstarsec.com/syllabi/VSS_HH… voidstarsec.com/syllabi/VSS_FA…

New blog post! SCPI and Hardware Instrumentation for Reverse Engineers - Part 1 Learn how to use SCPI and PyVISA to programmatically control your oscilloscope and power supply for hardware hacking. We walk through automating power cycling, capturing waveforms, and importing traces into PulseView for analysis. voidstarsec.com/blog/scpi-and-…

Over the weekend I compiled all my past blog posts and research into a roadmap/compendium for people looking to learn more about hardware reverse engineering. Check it out here: voidstarsec.com/roadmap/

Another batch of kits for our self paced course: Hacking Hardware Debuggers! This course is a deep dive into reverse engineering JTAG and SWD interfaces from a black box perspective. Want to learn more: voidstarsecurity.thinkific.com Want free resources on hardware hacking? Check out these links: voidstarsec.com/blog/ wrongbaud.github.io

Exploiting a use after free (CVE-2025-1050) in the Sonos Era 300 (Pwn2Own 2024) blog.ret2.io/2025/06/11/pwn… Credits Jack Dates & Markus Gaasedelen #infosec #embedded

New Blog post! Brushing Up on Hardware Hacking Part 3: OpenOCD and SWD In this post we write a flash programming algorithm for an unsupported chip using OpenOCD, and flash custom firmware! Check it out here: voidstarsec.com/blog/brushing-…

Blog update! I've updated the @voidstarsec blog with tags, categories and some of the most popular links from my old personal blog - check it out here! voidstarsec.com/blog/

This was a pretty cool online course by @voidstarsec I can recommend.

Big thanks to all of our new followers! We just wrapped up an awesome training at @_ringzer0 with a stellar group of hardware hackers! If you want to learn more about hardware hacking and reverse engineering, check out our blog here: voidstarsec.com/blog/

It's Pi day! Here is a thread about hardware hacking with a @RaspberryPi_org First we have a JTAG deep dive, using the Pi as a JTAG debugger: voidstarsec.com/blog/jtag-pifex

New Blog Post - Part 2, featuring SPI, UART, Pulseview and Flashrom 🦉 voidstarsec.com/blog/brushing-…

New blog post! Brushing Up on Hardware Hacking Part 1: PiFex Configuration with Pi-Gen This is the first part of a three part series, keep an eye our for part two next week! voidstarsec.com/blog/pifex-pig…

#ICYMI, Ghidra 11.3 has new features to supercharge work on your cybersecurity challenges. We added the long-requested built-in Python3 support based on Pyhidra, a p-code accelerated emulator, and original source code to binary linking. Check it out: github.com/NationalSecuri…

📚 x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu by Ed Jorgensen (Free book) This x86-64 + Ubuntu guide covers registers, memory, calling conventions, SIMD, parallelism, debugging, and more. A solid resource for low-level programming!

If you're interested in learning more, check out our in-person training at @_ringzer0 this year in March! ringzer0.training/bootstrap25-vo…

Intro to embedded devices reverse engineering Ghidra setup: voidstarsec.com/blog/ghidra-de… Tools: voidstarsec.com/blog/intro-to-… Firmware extraction: voidstarsec.com/blog/uart-uboo… Credits @voidstarsec #reverseengineering #cybersecurity

I'm so excited to finally announce the first @voidstarsec self-paced online training which is now live - Hacking Hardware Debuggers. Learn more about it here: voidstarsecurity.thinkific.com/courses/hhd

Get started with embedded devices reverse engineering Ghidra setup: voidstarsec.com/blog/ghidra-de… Tools: voidstarsec.com/blog/intro-to-… Firmware extraction: voidstarsec.com/blog/uart-uboo… Credits @voidstarsec #reverseengineering #cybersecurity

It's hunting season here in WV...the PiFex is hunting for a debug interface on this Xbox controller. Want to learn more? Check out our course here: voidstarsecurity.thinkific.com/courses/hhd

Looking to learn more about hardware hacking to close out the year? Check out some of our resources on our wiki here: voidstarsec.com/hw-hacking-lab/

Intro for beginners to embedded devices reverse engineering Ghidra setup: voidstarsec.com/blog/ghidra-de… Tools: voidstarsec.com/blog/intro-to-… Firmware extraction: voidstarsec.com/blog/uart-uboo… Credits @voidstarsec #reverseengineering #infosec