Collaborate Disseminate
The Apple-I was a far cry from Apple’s later products. A $666 single-board computer, the product had some unique design features including using a shift register for video memory to …read more Continue reading [Ken Shirriff] Takes a Bite of the Apple-I
It’s amazing when a skilled hacker reverse-engineers a proprietary format and shares the nitty-gritty with everyone. Today is a day when we get one such write-up – about MemoryStick. It …read more Continue reading Hacker Challenges MemoryStick To A Fight And Wins
When we see [Ken Shirriff] reverse engineering something, it tends to be on the microscopic level. His usual forte is looking at die photos of strange and obsolete chips and …read more Continue reading Retro Breadboard Gives Up its 1960s Secrets
I was working on a CTF practice qn by picoCTF called ‘Transformation’ which relies on Reverse Engineering
”.join([chr((ord(flag[i]) << 8) + ord(flag[i + 1])) for i in range(0, len(flag), 2)])
We are tasked to decrypt a file with ran… Continue reading Understanding code PicoCTF-Transformation [closed]
People don’t usually go as far as [Wenting Zhang] has – designing a new IDE SSD board for a portable x86 computer made in 2006. That said, it’s been jaw-dropping …read more Continue reading Custom SSD Gives New Life to Handheld Atom PC
I have come across a lot of guides and blogs about reverse engineering where they use labs to teach various techniques and methods to break binaries. My question is what actual use cases does reverse engineering have in the real world, as … Continue reading What can I do with reverse engineering
We don’t know about you, but we have mixed feelings about online puzzle fads. On one hand, they are great tool to help keep one sharp, but they’re just everywhere. …read more Continue reading Wordle Reverse-Engineering and Automated Solving
I am having a hard time understanding the following statement. Can someone elaborate?
"employ the use of advanced tools to aid in the detection and
remediation of Malware in Customer’s Environments, including
disassemblers, debuggers… Continue reading How debuggers help in detecting malware? [closed]
Sometimes reverse engineering embedded systems can be a right old faff, with you needing to resort to all kinds of tricks such as power glitching in order to poke a …read more Continue reading Linux Arcade Cab Gives Up Its Secrets Too Easily
Bending various proprietary devices to our will is a hacker’s rite of passage. When it comes to proprietary wall sockets, we’d often reverse-engineer and emulate their protocol – but you …read more Continue reading Reusing Proprietary Wireless Sockets Without Wireless Hacking