The ISE team has conducted several public, independently researched projects that have captured the industry's interest:

The first public exploit of the Apple iPhone

This proof-of-concept exploit demonstrated the device's vulnerability to malicious injection of code from a web page. The exploit was widely reported, with articles in the New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post. Read more about this at our iphone exploit information page.

BluRay and HD-DVD players

The evaluation, which included AACS and BD+, revealed several concerns with the AACS specification.

Texas Instruments TIRIS RFID transponder chips

ISE team members reverse engineered these commercial RFID chips found in more than 150 million car keys in the US and in over 10 million ExxonMobil Speedpasses. This research demonstrated that criminals could easily make electronic copies of these chips believed at the time to be uncopyable. This research was reported in the New York Times, and the official USENIX publication can be found here..

Diebold e-voting machines

This work pointed out vulnerabilities with a leading producer of electronic voting machines during at a time when the e-voting controversy was peaking. Read more.

The first implemented key recovery attack on WEP

ISE team members were the first to apply a theoretical attack on RC4 to IEEE 802.11 WEP to determine the encryption key of a wireless network. ISE papers on the subject appeared in the ISOC Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) conference and in the journal ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC).