Collaborate Disseminate
FPGAs are awesome — they can be essentially configured into becoming any computing device you want. Simply load your selected bitstream into the device on boot, and it behaves like a different piece of hardware. With great power comes great responsibility.
You might try to hack a given FPGA system …read more
Continue reading Researchers Break FPGA Encryption Using FPGA Encryption
One of the fun things about old video games, besides their obvious nostalgia, is that some of the more popular games have been pried apart and tinkered with for years, leading to a lot of new “development” within the games. This often uncovers some hidden gems that gamers might not have had any knowledge of during the game’s heyday, like this coding oddity found in Final Fantasy 7 that illustrates a lot about how 32-bit processors do math.
The original PlayStation used a 32-bit RISC processor, but the most significant bit could be used for integer signing. This means that …read more
Continue reading Final Fantasy Exploit Teaches 32-bit Integer Math
Koko died in Woodside, California, on Tuesday. The beloved primate was 46. Continue reading RIP Koko, the Kitten-Loving Gorilla Who Communicated With Humans
Savitech provides USB audio drivers for a number of specialized audio products. Some versions of the Savitech driver package silently install a root CA certificate into the Windows trusted root certificate store. Continue reading VU#446847: Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate
Savitech provides USB audio drivers for a number of specialized audio products. Some versions of the Savitech driver package silently install a root CA certificate into the Windows trusted root certificate store. Continue reading VU#446847: Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate