Tag: hardware

We will demonstrate how we can recover the password and memory content of RFID tags by carefully cutting the power source during EEPROM writes.

In this article we describe how we created a low cost training Electronic Control Unit (ECU) that can be attacked at will, without damaging a real car. The whole project is open-source on Quarkslab's github page.

Second part of a blog post series about our approach to reverse engineer a Philips TriMedia based IP camera.

First part of a blog post series about our approach to reverse engineer a Philips TriMedia based IP camera.

Second part of a blog post series about our approach to dump a flash chip. In this article we describe how to restore functionality of a device with a flexible setup.

This blog post presents the reverse engineering of an OBD2 dongle called "Nitro OBD2". It is advertised like this: "NitroOBD2 is a Chip Tuning Box which can be plugged into OBD2 connector of your car to increase the performance of your car." There are a lot of testimonies on the internet about this device being a fake, while other people say that is is really working. We wanted to reverse engineer it to check by ourselves.

First part of a blog post series about our approach to dump a flash chip. In this article we describe how to desolder the flash, design and build the corresponding breakout board.