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News 08.05.2026 2 min read

New training: attacking flight controller firmware.

TrainingFirmware

Three days, real hardware, taught by the people who wrote the findings.

A new three-day course for engineers who build or integrate flight controllers. Every exercise runs against real hardware on the bench — extraction, bootloader analysis, signature verification review, and a full unsigned-image flash through a recovery path.

  • Day one — the board. Interfaces, extraction, read-out protection.
  • Day two — the bootloader. Chains, branches, and the paths that skip verification.
  • Day three — the fix. Designing a boot chain that survives assessment.

Delivered on site for manufacturer teams, or in Toronto. Get in touch for dates.

Same stack. Different aircraft.

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