Collaborate Disseminate
[Marcel] thought – what if he had more control over his house ventilation system? You could add some nifty features, such as automatically ventilating your house in the mornings when …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: House Ventilation Reverse-Engineered And Automated
I am performing some Windows malware research on a rogue AV software called SpySheriff (password: infected). I want to edit the IP address within the PE (.exe) file to change it to my honeypot IP address. I know it is easier to set-up IP T… Continue reading Hex editing an IP address of a different length
Following a recent Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department will no longer prosecute “good faith” security researchers with cybercrimes:
The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged. Good faith security research means accessing a computer solely for purposes of good-faith testing, investigation, and/or correction of a security flaw or vulnerability, where such activity is carried out in a manner designed to avoid any harm to individuals or the public, and where the information derived from the activity is used primarily to promote the security or safety of the class of devices, machines, or online services to which the accessed computer belongs, or those who use such devices, machines, or online services…
[dropbear] recently found herself in a pickle. Dumping some data out of an Android app at a specific point for reverse engineering purposes. While it worked great in the simulator, …read more Continue reading Hack Another ELF On The Stack
When I first became interested in malware reverse engineering years ago, the first malicious program I encountered was a scareware called SpySheriff. It had a wide internet presence, as it spread through the typo-squatting domain goggle.co… Continue reading Malware binaries for the SpySheriff scareware
If the encrypted file is from one of the known formats, such as doc, jpg, mp3, etc., is it possible to reverse engineer it and decrypt it?
I "roughly" know the mechanic behind the AES encryption: Matrix operation, Row shifting, C… Continue reading Is possible to reverse engineer a AES encryption of a known file format?
[Jure Spiler] was at a flea market and got himself a spectrophotometer — a device that measures absorbance and transmittance of light at different wavelengths. This particular model seems to …read more Continue reading Exporting Data from Old Gear Through LCD Sniffing
[aleaksah] got himself a Mi Smart Kettle Pro, a kettle with Bluetooth connectivity, and a smartphone app to go with it. Despite all the smarts, it couldn’t be turned on …read more Continue reading Dumping Encrypted-At-Rest Firmware Of Xiaomi Smart Kettle
Despite being a computer with some extra chips, synthesizers today are still quite expensive. They used to cost far more, but we tend to think of them as instruments instead …read more Continue reading Patching the Kurzweil K2500 Synthesizer
My niece’s two favorite classes in high school this year are “Intro to AI” and “Ethical Hacking”. (She goes to a much cooler high school than I did!) In “Hacking”, …read more Continue reading Research: It’s Like Cheating, but Fair