Silicon Exposed

I've been interested in the security of compilers and related toolchains ever since I first read about Ken Thompson's compiler back...

It's been a while since I've written anything here so here's a bit of a brain-dump on upcoming stuff that will find its way here...

This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Part 1, Target Recon, is here . Once I knew what all of the wires in the ZIA did, the next step was to ...

This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Part 2, The Attack, is here . One of the reasons I've gone a bit dark lately is that running CSCI 6...

Those of you keeping an eye on the MIPS microcontroller world have probably heard of Microchip's PIC32 series parts: MIPS32 CPU cores li...

I've been reverse engineering a programmable logic device (Xilinx XC2C32A) made on UMC's 180nm eNVM process for the last few months ...