Collaborate Disseminate
You know things are getting real when the Dremel is one of the first tools you turn to after unboxing your new oscilloscope. But when your goal is to hack …read more Continue reading Hacked Oscilloscope Plays Breakout, Hints at More
When attempting to boot a live OS via USB or CD, I get the secure boot error: "Image failed to verify with ACCESS DENIED". There is no SSD/HDD installed. Secure boot is enabled and while i know that disabling secure boot will all… Continue reading How to fix Secure Boot error "Image failed to verify with *ACCESS DENIED*"(possible firmware rootkit) [migrated]
Los Angeles firmware and software supply chain firm banks $10.5 million in seed-stage funding led by Two Bear Capital.
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Watch out, Baofeng; there’s a new kid on the cheap handy talkie market, and judging by this hardware and firmware upgrade to the Quansheng UV-K5, the radio’s hackability is going …read more Continue reading Open HT Surgery Gives Cheap Transceiver All-Band Capabilities
The range of hardware that comes on some dev boards these days is truly staggering. Those little LoRa boards are a prime example — ESP32 with WiFi and Bluetooth, a …read more Continue reading Custom Library Rescues Good LoRa Hardware from Bad Firmware
Modern laptops and mobile phone platforms are built around a main, beefy SoC, which generally supports Secure Boot for its firmware and also has a unique hardware identity that is used to attest to a remote management system that it is gen… Continue reading How is the authenticity and integrity of the various chips inside laptops and mobile phones ensured by their vendors?
Sometimes, you have a piece of hardware that just up and stops working on you. In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to toss something broken and move on. [BuyItFixIt], as …read more Continue reading Recovering a Busted Video Capture Device With Firmware Flashing Tricks
In relation to another question I wanted to ask, supposing I pulled the drives from a laptop, and the GPU/CPU/TPM/RAM are soldered on the mother board (along with lots of other random chips). What software ("images") persists on … Continue reading Dump All Images Possible On a Laptop Motherboard [migrated]
The majority of virus/malware is stored and persists on the hard drive, Therefore by formatting the hard drive or re-installing the operating system, the virus is removed.
However, the average laptop also provides other means of infection … Continue reading How many parts of an average laptop can be compromised? and how to confirm they are not?
Interesting attack based on malicious pre-OS logo images:
LogoFAIL is a constellation of two dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities that have lurked for years, if not decades, in Unified Extensible Firmware Interfaces responsible for booting modern devices that run Windows or Linux….
The vulnerabilities are the subject of a coordinated mass disclosure released Wednesday. The participating companies comprise nearly the entirety of the x64 and ARM CPU ecosystem, starting with UEFI suppliers AMI, Insyde, and Phoenix (sometimes still called IBVs or independent BIOS vendors); device manufacturers such as Lenovo, Dell, and HP; and the makers of the CPUs that go inside the devices, usually Intel, AMD or designers of ARM CPUs……