Collaborate Disseminate
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……
Open-source software has gone a long way into making modern technology the way it is today. The Linux kernel alone is almost single-handedly holding up the entire Internet, and various …read more Continue reading One Less Binary Blob
With the increase in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their need to communicate wirelessly, there’s been a corresponding explosion of wireless protocols to chose from. Of course …read more Continue reading Converting Bluetooth Sensors to Zigbee
We’ve noticed an uptick in “project to product” stories lately, which seems like a fantastic trend to us. It means that hackers are turning out projects that really resonate with …read more Continue reading Taking a Public Transit Display from Project to Product
I’ve got the issue that the Gmail app on Android (OnePlus One device) is unable to send messages (it stays in Outbox instead of Sent). Once in the past, I’ve solved this by clearing the Gmail app cache, another time by disabling and enabli… Continue reading Gmail app on Android can’t send messages since months
When I installed Debian 12 LXQt ISO with the graphical install, it installed many proprietary firmware packages that were not needed and without my consent.
Is it possible that proprietary firmware included in Debian default installation c… Continue reading Risk of spyware with proprietary firmware packages on Linux, even after removing them?
Firmware is caught between hardware and software. What do I mean? Microcontroller designers compete on how many interesting and useful hardware peripherals they can add to the chips, and they …read more Continue reading Close to the Metal
In an era where data security is paramount, the recent revelations about firmware backdoors implanted by Chinese government-backed hackers serve as a stark reminder of the evolving threat landscape. BlackTech is infiltrating routers to gain undetectabl… Continue reading Quantum risk is real now: How to navigate the evolving data harvesting threat