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Lot of posts about badUSB (here and there) suggest to use a PS/2 connector for mouse and keyboard or to whitelisted USB devices or even use a hardware firewall that only allows whitelisted commands.
The purpose is to protect the usb devic… Continue reading Non-upgradable usb device against badUSB
USB flash drives contain small microcontrollers that run firmware.
I have heard that there is a way using USB to access that firmware and even to upload it.
Is this indeed the case?
When I look at the ‘lsusb’ output I do not … Continue reading USB thumb drive firmware access
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Is it enough to only wipe a flash drive once?
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I want to wipe all resi… Continue reading How to safely wipe a USB flash drive [duplicate]
I start with the fact that I understand how flash devices (pendrives) can be encrypted with software, for example Bitlocker. Simply, the encryption key is the password given during encryption and decryption by user, where the… Continue reading How is it possible that hardware-encrypted flash devices are safe?
It can be understood that if i delete some data, those bytes may not be written by other data can be extracted because the data actually resides on those sectors/cells.
But i wounder how the bytes can be recovered from the s… Continue reading Understanding the philosophy of recovering data
A lot of work has been done on: how to ensure a secure boot for FPGAs. However, as far as I know, it seems that it is applied to the SRAM based FPGAs.
I wonder, is there such concern about the Non-Volatile-Memory based FPGA… Continue reading Does NVM based FPGA require a secure boot process?
This question already has an answer here:
Is it enough to only wipe a flash drive once?
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I need to safely erase … Continue reading How to safely erase the available space and files in Flash memories on Windows 7? [duplicate]
The proper way to secure erase a SSD is to issue the SECURITY ERASE UNIT command. Then the SSD controller should send a BLOCK ERASE command to all physical blocks.
One caveat: the SSD has to be connected directly to the SATA interface. Do… Continue reading Howto restore factory default state of an USB pen drive?
Are there any commands, tools or python libraries to securely wipe specific files from an SD or micro SD card (devices that use flash memory)?
For example, with a regular magnetic hard drive, you can use the Wipe command to … Continue reading Linux command to wipe files on an SD Card?
I have some tutorial videos in a memory card which is copy protected. Its validity is 6 months but need it for 1 year. Is there any way to prevent it? may be by exporting those to hard disc?I know its illegal but those videos… Continue reading How to prevent data self destruct? [on hold]