Join us for a live, in-person event with guest Joe Grand.

Joe Grand, also known as Kingpin, is an American computer engineer and hardware hacker. He was a member of the legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries and was a co-host of Prototype This on Discovery Channel. He specializes in creating, exploring, manipulating, and teaching about electronic devices. Learn more at joegrand.com and grandideastudio.com.

Talk: Hardware espionage involves intentionally compromising the integrity or modifying the functionality of an electronic product in a way that is beneficial to the attacker. Techniques like supply chain attacks and hardware implants are often discussed, but rarely seen in the wild.

In this presentation, Joe explores the history of hardware espionage and details his reverse engineering process of a real-world hardware implant discovered inside of a Ledger Nano X cryptocurrency hardware wallet.