The Glitch: A Security Testing Hardware Platform!

With time, just as malware’s, phone’s, laptop’s got smaller in size, so have a lot many devices. In this post, by devices I mean stuff that you can actually use in a penetration test.

Enter The Glitch, a smaller version of all devices mentioned above. The Glitch is a simple to use, plug-and-play, security testing hardware platform. Look at how small it is:

There are many great and free “Do It Yourself” security testing hardware projects such as Project Ubertooth. The problem for most people with such projects is the time and expertise it takes to construct and operate them if you want to use them for free. The Glitch is designed to make open hardware security testing more accessible to non-engineers.

The Glitch features:

• Small size
• Atmel 8-bit processor
• USB connector
• Micro SD Reader
• DIP Switch
• Solderless pinouts
• Programmable LEDs

The Glitch is built on open source software inspired by the Arduino platform. If you want to develop/edit the firmware, you can. From the image you can see that it has a small USB port on the front, which can be used with common USB adapters to connect to a PC and can be programmed to launch modules through the USB interface. The Glitch has a built in MicroSD reader for convenient data storage and configuration on a MicroSD card too! You can also select to run the payload as a command, a script, an executable, or using a special Keyboard control scripting language called HIDIScript, against Windows, Linux, and OSX.
Due to it’s versatility, The Glitch is capable of expanding to many different projects.

Following The Glitch projects are currently available:

• Keystroke Emulation: Once plugged into the USB port, The Glitch will launch the user defined module by typing/injecting thousands of keys a minute flawlessly.
• Embedding: The Glitch is that it is small enough to be embedded in computer peripherals, like a computer mouse. The form factor of The Glitch will be even smaller then the prototypes in the pictures. Think physical penetration here.

Know more about The Glitch from its Kickstarter page!