Collaborate Disseminate
In an ideal world, every single battery pack for power tools would use the same physical interface and speak a clearly documented protocol with chargers. Since we live in a …read more Continue reading Reverse-engineering the Milwaukee M18 Redlink Protocol
Last time, we’ve used a logic analyzer to investigate the ID_SD and ID_SC pins on a Raspberry Pi, which turned out to be regular I2C, and then we hacked hotplug …read more Continue reading Logic Analyzers: Capabilities And Limitations
Having a fondness for old and obscure audio and video media formats, [Techmoan] recently revisited the Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) format introduced in 1992. Despite being billed as the …read more Continue reading Exploring Hidden Lyrics on 1990s DCC Audio Tapes
[Video Game Esoterica] loves a 1990s video game called Operation Tiger. Apparently, there are only a few of these known to exist in 2023, and he managed to find one …read more Continue reading Rare Arcade Game Teardown and Mods
One of the delights of the boring pre-VGA era is that you get to express your creativity when it comes to making a random color CRT work with an equally …read more Continue reading RGB Graphics On a DEC Rainbow With Reverse-Engineered Monitor
Generally when you crack open a cheap car-to-USB charger unit that came with some widget, you do not expect to find anything amazing inside. That’s why it was such a …read more Continue reading An Unexpected Appearance of an Iconic Motorola Chip
The average Starlink user probably doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about their hardware after getting the dish aligned and wiring run. To security researchers, however, it’s another fascinating …read more Continue reading Diving into Starlink’s User Terminal Firmware
In September of 2022, multiple security news professionals wrote about and confirmed the leakage of a builder for Lockbit 3 ransomware. In this post we provide the analysis of the builder and recently discovered builds. Continue reading Lockbit leak, research opportunities on tools leaked from TAs
Usually, when you hear about games being decompiled and rebuilt, the games are often decades-old relics, loving and saved from the ravages of time. [MattKC] recently set out to decompile …read more Continue reading Decompiling Sonic Runners
Given the following conditions:
The encryption program, which uses some algorithm resembling AES-128 but with unknown modifications to real AES-128.
It uses a fixed key and IV.
It is written in Rust WITH debugging symbols but no source co… Continue reading Is it possible to reverse engineer an encryption algorithm derived from AES-128 given these conditions?