Skimmers on ATM Machines
Lately, I’ve really enjoyed having The Consumerist in my RSS reader. There’s always a lot of great stories about companies screwing over people, people getting in contact with the right people to straighten things out, and nice tips and tricks for when it happens to you. It’s one of my favorite non-security-related blogs in my reader, [...]
Gustavo Duarte’s Great Internals Series
I’ve spent some time looking at these posts over on Gustavo Duarte’s blog today, and I am very impressed. Gustavo has taken the time to write an entire series of posts on x86 internals, focusing on how memory works and the boot-up process. He uses Linux and, to a lesser extent, Windows in his examples, and [...]
Tool Release: msramdmp – Image RAM after a cold boot
The Princeton guys that I mentioned in my last post have not released the tools that they used in their paper, yet. I wanted to play around with the way PC’s tend to retain memory, so I’ve written my own implementation of the RAM dumper they describe and show in their videos:
msramdmp – The [...]
Imaging Memory After a Cold Boot
I’m taking a very short break from my Ph.D. preliminary exam to write a short post about this, because it’s so cool :) .
The Center for Information Security Policy at Princeton has published a very interesting paper on recovering encryption keys by imaging memory after a computer has been forcibly shut down:
http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/
Modern RAM chips hold [...]
Updated OpenWRT on the Fon Fonera Notes
OpenWRT on the Fon Fonera is one of the most popular posts on this site, however there’s a few rough spots, as it’s more of a set of notes from my own personal experience rather than a polished How-to. There’s several places where someone might fall through the cracks if they’re not using a [...]
OpenWRT on the Fon Fonera
UPDATE : Brett Hoff and Russell Butturini have made some notes of their own to go with these notes, to clarify some of the things that have changed in newer versions of Kamikaze and the Fon, gotchas with non-Apache webservers, and a few other things you might have problems with. Those notes are available [...]