Edge Connector Breakout Boards
The goal was simple: For the past year or so, I’ve been poking at my car’s head unit in my free time. This has now escalated to the point where I have two or three of the head units…
They use a 1mm-pitch edge connector for debugging and development access, and I didn’t want to solder wires directly to the pins in an irreversible way. As such, I created a breakout board!
Extracting QNX IFS Partitions
There isn’t a lot of content online discussing how to dump a QNX IFS partition, so I thought I’d write up a few paragraphs here to spread the tips and tricks that I’ve learned.
(If you just want the tl;dr and already know what IFS partitions are, scroll to the bottom!)
Embedded Firmware Exfiltration - The Easy Way
It’s not often you look to extract an embedded device’s firmware over the network. Luckily, it’s possible with SSH! We’ll go over a few techniques for dumping raw block device bytes out onto the network to facilitate quick extraction of device firmware for static analysis on a separate host computer.
Using CaringCaribou Without Root
Here’s your five second tip of the day: Need to install CaringCaribou on a system you don’t have root on? (For example: a CTF VM)