Valerio Di Giampietro

I did a workshop, at the Hacktivity 2019 – IT Security Festival on 25th and 26th October 2019 about “Introduction to IoT Reverse Engineering with an Example on a Home Router”.
Here you can find:

Presentation

• The presentation in pdf format, in the last pages of the presentation you will find the links to everything I talked about;

GitHub repositories related to the Home Router Example

• hacking-gemtek: the complete reverse engineering project for the home router example, a Gemtek home router (WVRTM-127ACN), distributed in Italy by Linkem, with the purpose to modify the firmware, gain root access, recover default WiFi password.

I did a presentation, in Italian (see below for similar presentation in English), at the RomHack 2019 – Cyber Security Conference on 28th September 2019 about “Reverse Engineering of IoT devices: Hack a Home Router”.

Here you can find:

Presentation

• The presentation in pdf format, in the last pages of the presentation you will find the links to everything I talked about;

GitHub repositories related to the Home Router Example

• adbtools2: tools for hacking ADB Epicentro routers (the example home router), including firmware modification kit and VOIP password recovery;
• Buildroot-armv7: a set of scripts, configuration files and Buildroot external tree to setup a Qemu emulation environment to run and reverse engineer the Netgear DVA 5592 executables.

I did a presentation at the Hack in Paris 2019 – Cyber Security Conference on 19th June 2019 about “Introduction to IoT Reverse Engineering with an example on a home router”.

Here you can find:

Presentation

• The presentation in pdf format, in the last pages of the presentation you will find the links to everything I talked about;
• The annotated presentation in pdf format with the actual transcript of the presentation

GitHub repositories related to the Home Router Example

• adbtools2: tools for hacking ADB Epicentro routers (the example home router), including firmware modification kit and VOIP password recovery;
• Buildroot-armv7: a set of scripts, configuration files and Buildroot external tree to setup a Qemu emulation environment to run and reverse engineer the Netgear DVA 5592 executables.

I did a presentation at the LinuxLab Conference on 3rd December 2018 about “Introduction to IoT Reverse Engineering with an example on a home router”. You can find:

• the presentation in pdf format, in the last pages of the presentation you will find the links to the tools mentioned in the presentation
• abdtools2: tools for hacking ADB Epicentro routers (the example home router), including firmware modification kit and VOIP password recovery
• buildroot-armv7: a set of scripts, configuration files and Buildroot external tree to setup a Qemu emulation environment to run and reverse engineer the Netgear DVA 5592 executables.

At the time it wasn’t possible (at least in Italy) to legitimely have an internet connection from home. At the end of 1993 i signed my first subscription to Galactica, it was a BBS with telnet, ftp access and usenet newsgroups imported as Fidonet Areas. It was funny to have internet access from home, but wasn’t possible to use Mosaic.
To navigate on the web i waited until the first months of 1994 when a provider with full SLIP internet access was born here in Italy; it was Inrete in Turin.… Read the rest

This was my first Linux CD-ROM. At the time, it was May, 1993, I had a partial and slow access to the Internet at work (only e-mail, telnet and ftp, but no newsgroups); at home i was an active member of the bbs fidonet network community. A day, in the Fidonet UNIX.ITA area (a fidonet area is like an internet newsgroup) i read a posting about the aviability of Linux on CD-ROM from a company, based in Canada, and called SLS (Softlanding Linux System).… Read the rest