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Category Archives: hack
Does PHP Have A Future, Or Are Twenty Five Years Enough?
In June, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf made an announcement on a Usenet group. You can still read it.
Announcing the Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0.
These tools are a set of small tight cgi binaries written in C.
Today, twenty five years on, PHP is about as ubiquitous …read more
Posted in birthday, Current Events, facebook, Featured, frameworks, future, hack, hhvm, hiphop, history, interpreted, javascript, JIT, laravel, php, scripting, security, Software Development, web development
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Instruction Set Hack For Protected Memory Access
The nRF51 Series SoCs is a family of low power Bluetooth chips from Nordic Semiconductor that is based on ARM Cortex cores. The nRF51822 has the Cortex M0 core and is used in a lot of products. [Loren] has written a blog post in which he claims to be able …read more
Posted in cortex m0, hack, instruction set, Microcontrollers, misc hacks, nRF51
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The Ultimate Game Boy Talk
It is absolutely no exaggeration to say that [Michael Steil] gave the Ultimate Game Boy talk at the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress back in 2016. Watch it, and if you think that there’s been a better talk since then, post up in the comments and we’ll give you the hour …read more
Posted in 33C3, conference, gameboy, Games, hack, Nintendo Game Boy Hacks, talk
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ESP8266 and ESP32 WiFi Hacked!
[Matheus Garbelini] just came out with three (3!) different WiFi attacks on the popular ESP32/8266 family of chips. He notified Espressif first (thanks!) and they’ve patched around most of the vulnerabilities already, but if you’re running software on any of these chips that’s in a critical environment, you’d better push …read more
Posted in crash, ESP32, ESP8266, hack, security, security hacks, sky is falling, vulnerability, wifi, wireless hacks
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Warshipping: A Free Raspberry Pi In The Mail Is Not Always A Welcome Gift
Leading edge computer security is veiled in secrecy — a world where novel attacks are sprung on those who do not yet know what they need to protect against. Once certain tactics have played out within cool kids’ circles, they are introduced to the rest of the world. An IBM …read more
Fail of the Week: EPROMs, Rats’ Nests, Tanning Lamps, and Cardboard on Fire
It all started when I bought a late-1990s synthesizer that needed a firmware upgrade. One could simply pull the ROM chip, ship it off to Yamaha for a free replacement, and swap in the new one — in 2003. Lacking a time machine, a sensible option is to buy a pre-programmed aftermarket EPROM on eBay for $10, and if you just want a single pre-flashed EPROM that’s probably the right way to go. But I wanted an adventure.
Spoiler alert: I did manage to flash a few EPROMs and the RM1X is happily running OS 1.13 and pumping out the …read more
Posted in eprom, fail, Fail of the Week, fire, hack, hardware, Interest, led, Original Art, ultraviolet, uv
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Finding Bugs in Bluetooth
[Jiska Classen] and [Dennis Mantz] created a tool called Internal Blue that aims to be a Swiss-army knife for playing around with Bluetooth at a lower level. The ground for their tool is based in three functions that are common to all Broadcom Bluetooth chipsets: one that lets you read arbitrary memory, on that lets you run it, and one that lets you write it. Well, that was easy. The rest of their work was analyzing this code, and learning how to replace the firmware with their own version. That took them a few months of hard reversing work.
In …read more
Posted in 35C3, bluetooth, bug, conference, cons, hack, vulnerability, wireless hacks
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