WORLD CLASS SPECIALISTS AND RESEARCHERS
The collective vision, passion and hard work of the Red Balloon Security research team has made universally compatible security for embedded systems a reality.
LEADERS IN RESEARCH
Members of the Red Balloon Security team have led major DoD funded research activities.
PIADC Facility
Commercializing tech for deployment
U.S. Government funded Red Balloon research to bring advanced on-device security with real-time detection to production-network building controllers.
NYANSAT
Three-part satellite hacking workshop
Research for NyanSat resulted in a workshop for the Department of the Air Force and U.S. Defense Digital Service
THRANGRYCAT
Defeating Cisco’s secure boot
Red Balloon discovered a vulnerability which allows an attacker to persistently bypass Cisco’s proprietary secure boot mechanism and lock out future updates.
A MONITOR DARKLY
Is your monitor displaying the truth?
Reversing and exploiting ubiquitous on-screen display controllers in modern monitors.
ACADEMIC BREAKTHROUGHS
The team at Red Balloon have published seminal research papers in the fields of embedded security and established themselves as thought leaders in academic communities.
From prey to hunter: transforming legacy embedded devices into exploitation sensor grids.
Cui, Ang, Jatin Kataria, and Salvatore J. Stofo. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, pp. 393-402. ACM, 2011.
BADFET: defeating modern secure boot using second-order pulsed electromagnetic fault injection.
Cui, Ang, and Rick Housley. In 11th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 17). USENIX Association, vol. 180. 2017.
Utilizing electromagnetic emanations for out-of-band detection of unknown attack code in a programmable logic controller.
Boggs, Nathaniel, Jimmy C. Chau, and Ang Cui. Cyber Sensing 2018. Vol. 10630. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2018.
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Automotive Exploitation Sandbox: A Hands-on Educational Introduction to Embedded Device Exploitation.
Boggs, Nathaniel; Cui, Ang; Kataria, Jatin; Laulheret, Philippe. escar USA: Embedded Security in Cars. 2018.
Symbiotes and defensive mutualism: Moving target defense.
Cui, Ang, and Salvatore J. Stolfo. In Moving target defense, pp. 99-108. Springer, New York, NY, 2011.
