That Time I Hacked a Hardware Wallet and Recovered $2 Million
Joe 'Kingpin' Grand
Founder, Grand Idea Studio and former member, L0pht Heavy Industries
7-9pm ET, Thursday, 16 November 2023 via Webex
UMBC's CYBR program and the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity welcomes Joe Grand for a virtual lecture/discussion in CYBR 644! Joe will be talking about his decades-long journey in the cybersecurity industry, lessons learned along the way, and offer an in-depth look into how he was able to 'ethically hack' into a Bitcoin wallet to recover $2 million for an individual.
Joe Grand is a product designer, hardware hacker, and the founder of Grand Idea Studio, Inc. He specializes in creating, exploring, manipulating, and teaching about electronic devices. Through Grand Idea Studio, he is the inventor of the JTAGulator, an open source hardware tool that assists in identifying on-chip debug (OCD) interfaces from test points, vias, component pads, or connectors on a target device.
Also known as Kingpin, Joe was a member of the legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries, where he helped raise awareness of the hacker ethos and the importance of independent security vulnerability research. As part of L0pht's history-making visit to Congress in 1998, Grand testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs [1,2] regarding government and homeland computer security under his internet handle, Kingpin. More recently, he has brought engineering to the masses as a co-host of Discovery Channel's Prototype This! which follows the real-life design process of a unique prototype every episode.
UMBC's CYBR program and the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity welcomes Joe Grand for a virtual lecture/discussion in CYBR 644! Joe will be talking about his decades-long journey in the cybersecurity industry, lessons learned along the way, and offer an in-depth look into how he was able to 'ethically hack' into a Bitcoin wallet to recover $2 million for an individual.
Joe Grand is a product designer, hardware hacker, and the founder of Grand Idea Studio, Inc. He specializes in creating, exploring, manipulating, and teaching about electronic devices. Through Grand Idea Studio, he is the inventor of the JTAGulator, an open source hardware tool that assists in identifying on-chip debug (OCD) interfaces from test points, vias, component pads, or connectors on a target device.
Also known as Kingpin, Joe was a member of the legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries, where he helped raise awareness of the hacker ethos and the importance of independent security vulnerability research. As part of L0pht's history-making visit to Congress in 1998, Grand testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs [1,2] regarding government and homeland computer security under his internet handle, Kingpin. More recently, he has brought engineering to the masses as a co-host of Discovery Channel's Prototype This! which follows the real-life design process of a unique prototype every episode.
Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and an honorary Doctorate of Science in Technology from the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona. More information can be found at https://linktr.ee/joegrand.
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