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We’ve recently got a look at how [Ken Shirriff] used an industrial CT scanner as a reverse engineering tool. The results were spectacular, with pictures that clearly showed the internal …read more Continue reading A Deeper Dive Into Reverse Engineering with a CT Scanner
The concept of an outlet tester is pretty simple: plug the gadget into a suspect wall receptacle, and an array of LEDs light up in various patterns to alert the …read more Continue reading Mapping Out the LEDs on an Outlet Tester
The degree to which computed tomography has been a boon to medical science is hard to overstate. CT scans give doctors a look inside the body that gives far more …read more Continue reading CT Scans Help Reverse Engineer Mystery Module
Among all the things you could find at MCH2022, there were a few CTFs (Capture The Flag exercises) – in particular, every badge contained an application that you could try …read more Continue reading MCH2022 Badge CTF Solved, With Plenty To Learn From
The idea behind the PixMob wristband is simple — at a concert, organizers hand these out to the concertgoers, and during the show, infrared projectors are used to transmit commands …read more Continue reading PixMob Wristband Protocol Reverse-Engineering Groundwork
I have a black-box token generation system from a Unity (Android) app, and the format is as follows (with one real example from the system, and unlabelled parts were identical for bunch of different tokens; "…" means the string… Continue reading Crack HMAC-SHA512 to find plaintext with the known secret key
Here on Hackaday, we routinely cover wonderful informative writeups on different areas of hardware hacking, and we even have our own university with courses that delve into topics one by …read more Continue reading Books You Should Read: The Hardware Hacker’s Handbook
[greenluigi1] bought a Hyundai Ioniq car, and then, to our astonishment, absolutely demolished the Linux-based head unit firmware. By that, we mean that he bypassed all of the firmware update …read more Continue reading Hacker Liberates Hyundai Head Unit, Writes Custom Apps
In their monthly announcement, among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain …read more Continue reading Open Firmware For PinePhone LTE Modem – What’s Up With That?
When you think old school handheld games, you probably imagine something like Nintendo’s Game Boy line or the Sega Game Gear. But outside of those now iconic systems, there was …read more Continue reading Hacking the RF Protocol of an Obscure Handheld Game