Rowhammer Variant ‘RAMpage’ Targets Android Devices All Over Again

The attack allows malicious applications to break out of their sandbox and access the entire operating system, giving an adversary complete control of the targeted device. Continue reading Rowhammer Variant ‘RAMpage’ Targets Android Devices All Over Again

The Tiniest Working 68K System

68000 microprocessors appeared in the earliest Apple Macintoshes, the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, and the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive among other familiar systems. If you were alive during the 16-bit era, there is a good chance that you will have owned a Motorola 68000 or one of its derivatives in a computer or game console. By the end of the 1990s it was clear that the 68K line had had its day on the desktop, but a new life for it at the consumer level was found in the PDA market. The first Motorola Dragonball was a 68000 series system-on-chip, …read more

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Security flaw in Moto G5 Plus allows anyone to bypass lockscreen

By Waqas
A critical security flaw or bug in Motorola Moto G5 Plus
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A Tale of Three Smartphones

For the past few weeks, I’ve been evaluating three smartphones that represent some of the best choices available in their respective pricing categories. Here are some early recommendations.
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Ask Hackaday: Why Did Modular Smart Phones Fail?

Remember all the talk about modular smart phones? They sounded amazing! instead of upgrading your phone you would just upgrade the parts a bit like a computer but more simplistic. Well it seems modular phones are dead (video, embedded below) even after a lot of major phone manufacturers were jumping on the bandwagon. Even Google got on-board with Google Ara which was subsequently cancelled. LG released the G5 but it didn’t fare too well. The Moto Z from Motorola seemed to suffer from the same lack of interest. The buzz was there when the concept of these modular phones was …read more

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