Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 3: Abusing UART (U Are RooT)
As a reminder, Lesson 1 was a primer on electronics and setting up your lab, and Lesson 2 was an introduction to classical hardware hacking. To get started with security-focused hardware hacking, let's look at a pretty simple example: getting a root shell by breaking into U-Boot via a serial ... Read More
Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 2: Classical Hardware Hacking
Welcome back to our ongoing series on hardware hacking and our second lesson. Last month we presented “Lesson 1: Beauty, Your Home Lab and Basic Electronics” with an appreciative nod to this fine art, the essential components needed to try this at home and some helpful tutorials to quickly get ... Read More
Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 1: Beauty, Your Home Lab and Basic Electronics
Hardware hacking is one of those subjects that a lot of hackers appear to have great interest, but most don't act on that interest. There are a variety of reasons why this may be such as a perceived steep learning curve, financial barrier to entry, and lack of applicability. I'm ... Read More
