something from nothing

Bitsquatting has fascinated me for a while.

Laser engravers are usually built around a pretty static workflow.

Microphones are everywhere: smartphones, IoT devices, and so forth.

Antenna design is one of those witchcrafts you either know how to do, or you just don’t.

Every baseband enabled device ships with two computers, the one you interact with, and the one that quietly interfaces with the network on your behalf.

Having played with access card readers for a fair while, I have always wondered why hasn’t anyone come up with a nice portable tool to check whether the readers are running Wiegand or OSDP.

In Parts 1 and 2 we covered how to set up a private baseband RAN, build a bare-bones fuzzer, and gather all the data needed to triage the crashes it produced.

We’ll continue where we left off in Part 1.

Baseband vulnerabilities have been a hot topic for a few years now.

Like Wu-Tang said: “C.R.E.A.M / Get the money, dolla dolla bill, y’all”.

RISC-V is here to stay.

The espresso machine modifying scene is very active.

Firmware encryption is becoming a common feature in modern devices.