With this post we provide an introduction to a three part series on hardware hacking and how to use a Raspberry Pi as a hardware hacking multitool. This post covers how to configure the Raspberry Pi and describes the first target that we will be using for the series

As we reach the end of the year, I want to thank everyone for their continued support and business. 2023 was a great year for training and consulting. We worked with companies ranging from 4000 to 15 members, all of which brought unique perspectives to our course material and allowed us to expand on new topics and targets. A big thanks to all those who reached out for onsite training in 2023 and those who contracted with us!

This post reviews some of the tools needed when setting up a lab for reverse engineering embedded systems. There will be two sections, one for hardware tools and one for software tools. After reading this blog post, the reader should know what is needed to set up an introductory lab for reverse engineering embedded systems and firmware images.

With this post, I hope to explain how to set up a development environment for the latest Ghidra release on Ubuntu 20.04. After following the steps outlined below, we will have the ability to write, debug and export custom Ghidra plugins, modules, and scripts.

With this post we review Ghidra's built-in debugger and walk through how to use it on a simple ARM target

This post covers the basics of manually extracting data from I2C and parellel flash interfaces. We will use commodity tools to extract data from our exemplar targets and learn more about how they work.

The Tricore CPU architecture is commonly found in automotive embedded systems, often running an RTOS or even just bare metal firmware. This post will go over setting up an entry level toolchain for the Tricore architecture under Linux, and how we can use this toolchain when reverse engineering automotive platforms. We will also go over and provide a very simple bare metal loader.