Reminder, because this deserves repeating:
@Joegrand (Kingpin) is keynoting #BSidesBrisbane on 04 July 2026.
Hardware hacker since the age of seven. L0pht Heavy Industries. Original #DEFCON badge designer. Cracked a locked Trezor wallet to recover $2M in Bitcoin. Taught hardware hacking at Black Hat for two decades.
First time in Brisbane. Don't miss it.
Tickets on sale now, only 100 days to go.
#BSides #InfoSec #HardwareHacking #Brisbane #Kingpin #CyberSecurity
Reverse Engineering or Necromancy? 🧟♂️⚖️
What do you do when the company goes dark, the app vanishes from the App Store, and your "smart" scale becomes a 100€ paperweight?
You reverse it.
I’m starting a new series on ByteArchitect about bringing the QardioBase2 back to life. No ChatGPT-farts here—just raw bluetoothd logs, GATT discovery, and the sad sight of a backend that keeps saying "cancelled."
In this first part:
- Sniffing BLE traffic on iOS (without a jailbreak)
- Mapping proprietary GATT services & characteristics
- Realizing the servers are officially dead (RIP Qardio)
If you despise planned obsolescence as much as I do, join me in this "zombie" recovery:
https://bytearchitect.io/security-reversing/Reverse-with-me-Qardio-necromancy/
#ReverseEngineering #Infosec #BLE #iOS #HardwareHacking #Obsolescence #CyberSecurity #GATT #Necromancy
OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems
There’s a moment, if you spend enough time in this space, where your attention changes. You stop looking at individual data points as things to extract. You start seeing them as inputs to a larger structure.https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/
From Raw Data to Actionable Intelligence Without Leaving My System
The room is quiet except for a fan that shouldn’t be that loud. Not the kind of noise you notice at first. It creeps in. A low mechanical breath that suggests something is working harder than it should. On the desk, a phone face-down, a laptop half-closed, a terminal window still alive somewhere beneath the sleep state. Nothing dramatic. Just the kind of setup most people would call normal. It isn’t. Most people think intelligence happens after the data leaves their system. They ship […]
Quite a lot of work: First MacBook Neo with 1 TByte SSD
The SSDs that Apple ships with the Neo are only 256 or 512 GByte. Upgrading is difficult due to soldered NAND modules. But it's possible.
#HardwareHacking #Mac #Macbook #macOS #Mobiles #FlashSpeicher #SSD #news
Ziemlich viel Arbeit: Erstes MacBook Neo mit 1 TByte großer SSD
Die SSDs, die Apple beim Neo mitliefert, sind nur 256 oder 512 GByte groß. Ein Aufrüsten ist aufgrund verlöteter NAND-Module schwierig. Aber es geht.
#HardwareHacking #Mac #Macbook #macOS #Mobiles #FlashSpeicher #SSD #news
Today, I couldn't resist any longer a finally got me a #LEGO #SmartPlay set: Star Wars
(75423) Luke's Red Five X-Wing. Seeing all the content around, I've tried to add something myself: #FlipperZero meets LEGO #SmartTag. The #SmartBrick is also around. This has been my first attempt to record, cut and release a video — so please don't be too hard on me. It's about 1 minute long only.
#HardwareHacking #NFC
BSides Brisbane
Gabriele Biondo
Chaincoder
NoraBell 🏳️⚧️🌈
heise online English
Mac & i
Reel Tubes
Pen Test Partners
Mäh W.