Although the methods in this article can be used for proper anonymity outside of the tor browser, the main focus is creating a secure tor based research environment. As most security researchers know there’s always a big decision with analyzing […]
I finally decided to write my first security tool based on an idea I had for advanced hook detection, I couldn’t find any evidence of the method being used so I based a tool around it. It’s still a working […]
It would seem that David Cameron doesn’t have a tech advisory or even knows anyone who uses browser other than Netscape, but that doesn’t seem stop him with his endless stream of proposals and laws to govern our internet. The […]
When I was contacted asking for a comment about the darkode raid, I’d said that the main administrator was not arrested and that’d I’d be surprised if it wasn’t back within a week; well It’s been a little more than […]
Recently I installed Windows 10 RTM and while I was digging around I happened to notice some changes to the user mode portion of the system call stub: these changes appear to break the current methods of user mode system […]
Since i got into firmware hacking, I’ve been working on a little project behind the scenes: A hard disk firmware based rootkit which allows malware to survive an operating system re-install or full disk format. Unfortunately I can’t post a […]
Core 2, I choose you. Less than 5 minutes after posting the last article, i discovered the final piece of my puzzle: a second CPU core. I was looking through my OpenOCD configuration when I realized it had a single […]
“Discovery requires experimentation” This weekend I made a pretty big breakthrough which lead to me making a few smaller breakthroughs and ultimately negating most of my previous research. I’ve also learned that “not reinventing the wheel” isn’t always the best […]
It seems that the bootstrap code is just scattered around various memory addresses and there’s no simple way to dump all of it, so i decided to just dump a chunk of memory from 0x00000000 and look for any reference […]
Before we get started with part 3, I have a few updates regarding part 1 & 2. I’ve found that the reset pad on the JTAG header is not actually a system reset (SRST) but a TAP reset (TRST), which […]