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I’ve been solving some CTFs lately, but I only do web challenges since I want to become a pentester/security researcher. Are there other categories like crypto or reverse engineering (or pwn or misc) that might benefit me in my technical … Continue reading What CTF categories (besides web) are useful for getting a pentesting job? [closed]
Sometimes, you will want to power a device in a way it wasn’t designed for, and you might find that the device in question is way too tailored to the …read more Continue reading Bypass PoE And Power Your Starlink Terminal Directly
If you ever wondered just what it takes to build a modern device like a phone, you should have come to last year’s Supercon and talked with [Jose Angel Torres]. …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: Jose Angel Torres On Building A Junkyard Secure Phone
If your thought repurposing DVB-T dongles for generic software defined radio (SDR) use was cool, wait until you see QCSuper, a project that re-purposes phones and modems to capture raw …read more Continue reading Turn Your Qualcomm Phone Or Modem Into Cellular Sniffer
Many readers will be aware of the trend for disposable vapes, and how harvesting them for lithium-ion batteries has become a popular pastime in our community. We’re all used to …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering A Fancy Disposable Vape
In the world of cheap amateur radio transceivers, the Quansheng UV-K5 can’t be beaten for hackability. But pretty much every hack we’ve seen so far focuses on the firmware. What …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering the Quansheng Hardware
Most reverse engineering projects we see around here have some sort of practical endpoint in mind. Usually, but not always. Reverse-engineering a 40-year-old cable modem probably serves no practical end, …read more Continue reading Ancient Cable Modem Reveals Its RF Secrets
Apple has developed a proprietary — even mysterious — “fisheye” projection format used for their immersive videos, such as those played back by the Apple Vision Pro. What’s the mystery? …read more Continue reading Unraveling The Secrets of Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Format
You know things are getting real when the Dremel is one of the first tools you turn to after unboxing your new oscilloscope. But when your goal is to hack …read more Continue reading Hacked Oscilloscope Plays Breakout, Hints at More
In the previous two HID articles, we talked about stealing HID descriptors, learned about a number of cool tools you can use for HID hacking on Linux, and created a …read more Continue reading Human-Interfacing Devices: HID over I2C