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A problem faced increasingly by retrocomputer enthusiasts everywhere is the supply of chips. Once a piece of silicon goes out of production its demand can be supplied for a time …read more Continue reading A Cycle-Accurate Intel 8088 Core For All Your Retro PC Needs
As arcades become more and more rare, plenty of pinball enthusiasts are moving these intricate machines to their home collections in basements, garages, and guest rooms. But if you’re not …read more Continue reading Tiny Pinball Machine Also Runs x86 Code
Ever wondered what it would take to roll your own OS? [Sebastian]’s Snowdrop OS might just provide you with some insight into that process, and maybe even some inspiration. [Sebastian] …read more Continue reading Homebrew an OS From Scratch? Snowdrop Shows How It’s Done
For the majority of workloads, fiddling with assembly instructions isn’t worth it. The added complexity and code obfuscation generally outweigh the relatively modest gains. Mainly because compilers have become quite …read more Continue reading AVX-512: When The Bits Really Count
VirusTotal welcomes ELF DIGEST, the first integrated multi-sandox fully dedicated to only processing linux files. This addition helps put the spotlight on linux malware. In the words of the founder Tolijan Trajanovski: ELF DIGEST is … Continue reading VirusTotal Multisandbox+= ELF DIGEST
I’m learning about basic x86 overflows in C but normally I code with Python. Is there anyway that programs written in higher level languages can suffer from buffer/heap overflow?
Continue reading Do high level languages allow for buffer / heap overflow?
Arguably the biggest advantage of the Arduino ecosystem is how easy it is to get your code running. Type a few lines into the IDE, hit the button, and in …read more Continue reading Arduino IDE Creates Bootable x86 Floppy Disks
Just like with pre-touchscreen cellphones having fancy innovative features that everyone’s forgotten about, there’s areas that laptop manufacturers used to venture in but no longer dare touch. On Twitter, [Kiwa] …read more Continue reading When Dell Built A Netbook With an x86 System-on-Module
Have you ever had a program crash before your main function executes? it is rare, but it can happen. When it does, you need to understand what happens behind the …read more Continue reading The Linux x86 Journey to main()
Overview In the last blog post of the X86 Linux assembly series, we focused on how to make our Hello World payload friendly for use as a payload in exploits. However, we didn’t cover how to extract the payload itself for use in exploits. Sure you cou… Continue reading Linux X86 Assembly – How To Make Payload Extraction Easier