This blogpost contains summaries of talks from this year’s TROOPERS18 Attack & Research Track.

Reverse Engineering Blackbox Systems with GreatFET & Facedancer by Kate Temkin and Dominic Spill

USB is everywhere, your phone, gaming consoles, IoT waffle irons, you name it. Due to its’ widespread use in everyday life it is typically trusted by the user. And even if one wanted to find out what’s happening behind the scenes, surely digging into USB communication is too much of a chore to be worth the hassle, right? This talk by Kate Temkin and Dominic Spill are about to prove that very wrong with an impressive display of their tools GreatFET and Facedancer.

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