Collaborate Disseminate
Buying broken gear for cheap is time honored hacker tradition, and while we might not always be successful in reviving it, rarely do we come away empty handed. There’s always …read more Continue reading Swapped ROM Revives Ailing HP-48S Calculator
What were the most serious attacks ever orchestrated through flash?
I am dubious if of the flash deprecation! it funnels a billion users on to google play.
Sounds like somebody had a really bad day at work, as Western Digital reports that “factory contamination” caused a batch of flash memory chips to be spoiled. How much, you …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 20, 2022
My company allows customers to upload PDFs, JPEGs and PNGs to our servers, which are then viewed by clients. We want to minimise the potential for attack on the clients. While the image formats are generally pretty safe, PDFs introduce mu… Continue reading When receiving PDFs from unknown sources, is it sufficient to remove dynamic content to minimise attack surface?
The Adobe Flash Player had an eventful run on the internet. It went from being a media-rich…
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I’ve been tasked to do a black box web app pentest. There are some part of the site that require Flash 11.
I’ve tried with ruffle firefox extension, but it doesn’t seem to support this version. What would you do in this situation? Is there… Continue reading How to pentest an old Flash application?
Remember the Psion Organiser? If you do, chances are you were an early adopter, as the 8-bit pocket computer had its heyday in the mid-1980s. Things have come a long …read more Continue reading Proto-PDA Regains Its Memory with the Help of a Raspberry Pi Pico
Why did [Hale] end up hacking the BIOS on a 10 year old laptop left over from an Australian education program? When your BIOS starts telling you you’re not allowed …read more Continue reading School Surplus Laptop BIOS Hacked to Remove Hardware Restrictions
During my search for an answer to this question I found that TRIM may not be reliable(https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/01/life-after-trim-using-factory-access-mode-for-imaging-ssd-drives/)as well as the ATA secure erasure, some have even sa… Continue reading Is there a fullproof way to safely erase SSD data, without physically destroying it?
Finding broken test gear and fixing it up to work again is a time-honored tradition among hackers. If you’re lucky, that eBay buy will end up being DOA because of …read more Continue reading Cloned Memory Module Fixes Broken Scopemeter