Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve been following the latest advancements in computing for a while, you already know that there’s a big problem with laptops: When they’re no longer useful as a daily …read more Continue reading Modular Laptop Maker Provides Mainboard Documentation for Non-Laptop Projects
We like projects where old gear is given a new life. [Splashdust] has a twenty-year old business firewall that’s build like a tank. He cracks it open and finds a …read more Continue reading Old Firewall Reborn as Retro PC
A couple of weeks ago, [Doug Brown] bought a Ryzen motherboard, advertised as “non-working” and discounted accordingly. He noticed that the seller didn’t test it with any CPUs old enough …read more Continue reading BIOS Flashing Journey Writeup Puts Tutorials To Shame
“They don’t make them like they used to.” It might be a cliché, it might not even be entirely true, but there’s something special about owning a piece of hardware …read more Continue reading Replacement Motherboard Brings New Lease of Life to Classic Thinkpads
While the Intel Management Engine (and, to a similar extent, the AMD Platform Security Processor) continues to plague modern computer processors with security risks, some small progress continues to be made for users who value security of the hardware and software they own. The latest venture in disabling the ME …read more
Continue reading Disable Intel’s Backdoor on Modern Hardware
How to keep your digital devices and accounts safe when exercising your right to peaceably assemble. Continue reading How to Protest Without Sacrificing Your Digital Privacy
From the title, you might think this post is going to be some lame story about someone plugging in some RAM and maybe updating a BIOS. That’s where you’d be wrong. [Downtown Doug Brown] has a much more interesting and instructive story.
[Doug] found his motherboard was rated for 8 …read more
Continue reading Hacking 16GB into an Old PC That Doesn’t Want That Much
Computer manufacturer Supermicro is still trying to lay to rest reports that the Chinese government tempered with its equipment to spy on Western cloud users. Continue reading Supermicro: We told you the tampering claims were false
If there’s one thing that’s making you insecure, it’s your smartphone. Your smartphone is constantly pinging the cell towers, giving out your location and potentially leaking your private information to anyone with a radio. This is the idea behind an IMSI catcher, or Stingray in common parlance, and now you too can build one with parts you can buy off of Amazon.
The key to this hack is a software defined radio dongle, or RTL-SDR, that has been repurposed to listen in on a GSM network. Literally the only hardware required is an RTL-SDR that can be bought online for …read more
Continue reading It Might Be Possible To Build A Stingray With A Raspberry Pi
Facebook discloses the loss of at least 50M Access Tokens also covered by Motherboard Formjacking is on the rise, Google admits to allowing hundreds of companies read your email, FireFox Monitor will alert you when your accounts have been Pwned, Micros… Continue reading Bugs, Breaches, and More – Application Security Weekly #34