Collaborate Disseminate
Following on from my C64 hacking days, but in parallel to my BBS Hacking, this final part looks at my early hardware hacking and creation of a new class of meteorological research radar…
Ever since that first C64 and through the x86 years, I’d … Continue reading Hacker History III: Professional Hardware Hacker
The millennium: a term that few had any use for before 1999, yet seemingly overnight it was everywhere. The turning of the millenium permeated every facet of pop culture. Unconventional popstars like Moby supplied electronica to the mainstream airwaves while audiences contemplated whether computers were the true enemy after seeing The Matrix. We were torn between anxiety — the impending Y2K bug bringing the end of civilization that Prince prophesied — and anticipation: the forthcoming release of the PlayStation 2.
Sony was poised to take control of the videogame console market once again. They had already sold more …read more
We all have something to hide, something to protect. But if you are also relying on self-encrypting drives for that, then you should read this news carefully.
Security researchers have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in some of the popula… Continue reading Flaws in Popular Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Decrypt Data
A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to sniff out sensitive protected data, like passwords and cryptographic keys, from other processes running in the same C… Continue reading New Intel CPU Flaw Exploits Hyper-Threading to Steal Encrypted Data
Security researchers have unveiled details of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips embedded in millions of access points and networking devices used by enterprises around the world.
Dubbed BleedingBit, the set of two vulner… Continue reading Two New Bluetooth Chip Flaws Expose Millions of Devices to Remote Attacks
CHIPSEC is a platform security assessment framework for PCs including hardware, system firmware (BIOS/UEFI), and platform components for firmware hacking.
It includes a security test suite, tools for accessing various low-level interfaces, and forensi… Continue reading CHIPSEC – Platform Security Assessment Framework For Firmware Hacking
A media report today revealed details of a significant supply chain attack which appears to be one of the largest corporate espionage and hardware hacking programs from a nation-state.
According to a lengthy report published today by Bloomberg, a tiny… Continue reading Chinese Spying Chips Found Hidden On Servers Used By US Companies
A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more self-reliant.
According to the post, Facebook is looking f… Continue reading Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips For Hardware Devices
Don’t install Intel’s patches for Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities.
Intel on Monday warned that you should stop deploying its current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches, which Linux creator Linus Torvalds calls ‘complete and utter garbage.’… Continue reading Intel Warns Users Not to Install Its ‘Faulty’ Meltdown and Spectre Patches
[q3k] got tipped off to a very cool problem in the ongoing Pwn2Win capture-the-flag, and he blew it out of the water by decoding the metal interconnect layers that encode a password in a VLSI IC. And not one to rent someone else’s netlist extraction code, he did it by writing his own.
The problem in the Pwn2Win CTF came in the form of the design files for a hypothetical rocket launch code. The custom IC takes an ASCII string as input, and flips a pin high if it matches. Probably the simplest way to do this in logic is …read more
