Lightning Talk Beginner First Talk

Poking Hardware: Finding Hidden debug ports with JTAGulator and Bus Pirate

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Session Description

Most embedded devices ship with JTAG and UART debug interfaces that never get disabled. This talk shows how to find and access them using two open source tools - JTAGulator and BusPirate.

Key Takeaways

Why debug ports stay on in production devices
JTAGulator: brute-forcing pin identification
BusPirate : talking to the interface once found.
Live demo with open source tool-chain.

References

https://github.com/grandideastudio/jtagulator

https://buspirate.com/

Session Categories

Engineering practice - productivity, debugging

Tutorial about using a FOSS project

Which track are you applying for?

Security

Speakers

Tejas Shrivastava Student

I am a BTECH CSE student and a member of BI0S Hardware under the embedded security domain.