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 Integrated Circuit (IC) Reverse-Engineering (RE) requires delayering and imagery steps. Those tasks are both challenging as the resulting pictures – made with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) – must exhibit a high quality. With clean detailed pictures of every layer of a chip, one can use dedicated tools to extract a gate-level netlist of the […]

 Tony Moor – Lab Manager Nintendo release its new hardware and made the choice to store games on cartridges. This will make those the preferred target for hackers that may not have to compromise the console itself to counterfeit games. Before talking about the resilience of the games against any form of piracy, let’s discover what […]

Behind the horror are important and real hardware security questions Olivier Thomas – Founder and CTO @ Texplained As CTO of Texplained  but mainly as a hardware reverse-engineer, I wanted to comment on some of the recent articles I read about extracting the secrets from the iphone belonging to the murderer. As it turned out, […]