The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
Apple has officially released iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. We break down all the top new features and how to download it. Continue reading The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
Category Archives: firmware update
Update Your Chinese Radio Without The Pain
The new hotness in cheap radios this year has been the Quansheng UV-K5, a Chinese handheld transceiver with significant RF abilities and easy modding. The amateur radio community have seized …read more Continue reading Update Your Chinese Radio Without The Pain
Welcome To The Future, Where your Microwave Thinks It’s A Steam Oven
It’s fair to say that many of us will have at some time inadvertently bricked a device by applying the wrong firmware by mistake. If we’re lucky then firing up …read more Continue reading Welcome To The Future, Where your Microwave Thinks It’s A Steam Oven
How To Easily Set Up Secure OTA Firmware Updates on ESP32
After an electronic IoT device has been deployed into the world, it may be necessary to reprogram or update it. But if physical access to the device (or devices) is …read more Continue reading How To Easily Set Up Secure OTA Firmware Updates on ESP32
Even More Firmware in your Firmware
There are many ways to update an embedded system in the field. Images can fly through the air one a time, travel by sneaker or hitch a ride on other passing data. OK, maybe that’s a stretch, but there are certainly a plethora of ways to get those sweet update …read more
Putting the Firmware in your Firmware
Performing over-the-air updates of devices in the field can be a tricky business. Reliability and recovery is of course key, but even getting the right bits to the right storage sectors can be a challenge. Recently I’ve been working on a project which called for the design of a new …read more
4 Unpatched Bugs Plague Grandstream ATAs for VoIP Users
The flaws have been confirmed by Grandstream, but no firmware update has yet been issued. Continue reading 4 Unpatched Bugs Plague Grandstream ATAs for VoIP Users
ASUS Home Router Bugs Open Consumers to Snooping Attacks
The two flaws allow man-in-the-middle attacks that would give an attacker access to all data flowing through the router. Continue reading ASUS Home Router Bugs Open Consumers to Snooping Attacks
Attackers Host Phishing Pages on Azure
Researchers have recently seen phishing attacks against Office 365 users wherein fake log-in pages were hosted on Microsoft Azure to give them more credibility. According to researchers from security firm EdgeWave, the rogue emails claim to be from Mi… Continue reading Attackers Host Phishing Pages on Azure
Google Partially Patches Flaw in Chrome for Android 3 Years After Disclosure
Google has finally patched a privacy vulnerability in its Chrome web browser for Android that exposes users’ device model and firmware version, eventually enabling remote attackers to identify unpatched devices and exploit known vulnerabilities.
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