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Defcon every year has many many different electronic badges that you can play with / hack / blind your friends with. I was lucky enough to get one of these really cool badges and I wanted to figure...

After the fairly successful ZACon badges I did in 2014 , the BSides team in Cape Town (where I now live) asked if I'd like to be involved in building another one. Naturally my response was abso-fsc...

Badges At some time in the next 6 billion years I will complete the writeup for the badges about how they were put together. For now this is just how to get your badge working at home as well as ho...

First off let me just say a big thank you to the MWR guys who put this CTF together, usually I don't partake in CTFs because the skillset required is usually out of my grasp (IANAP). To have develo...

The ZaCon badges were a ton of work on the hardware side (see ZaCon V Badge [1/2]: Build Time ), however they provided their own challenges on the software side as well. Since my knowledge of chips...

I realise I should have done this entry a little sooner, but as everyone should be well aware of by now, I am lazy. Also I moved to Cape Town just after ZaCon V which proved rather time consuming!...

UPDATE: For those people that missed the friday night the code and slides are here: Slides: /Badger Badger Badger.pptx Code: https://github.com/AndrewMohawk/zaconv/ MAGICELECTRONICBADGES Ever since...

Hi Guys, I see I haven't update this blog in ages, I'd love to say I didn't have enough time, but it was mostly just me being.. well lazy. Zacon IV was on the 27th of October ( http://www.zacon.org...

zacon - http://www.zacon.org.za/ - is just around the corner now, so badge submission went out. Wasn't particularly inspired but i hacked together 3 diff ones, now we just wait and see. UPDATE Deci...

So we had a little security con here in .za (South Africa), www.zacon.org.za - basically an uncon styled conference : An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around...