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OK, it’s official: the Quansheng UV-K5 is the king of hackable ham radios — especially now that a second version of the all-band hardware and firmware mod has been released, …read more Continue reading UV-K5 All-Band Mod, Part 2: Easier Install, Better Audio, and Two Antennas
I am paranoid schizophrenic, so bear with me, but I had an automatic firmware update and then another update (I didn’t see if it was firmware) and I am concerned that something has been installed on it to make me appear as if I were access… Continue reading Suspicious firmware updates (how easy to do forensics and get ISP data)
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]