[Meta Analysis] Rick and Morty S3E1: The Hacker’s Episode
Hi folks, I’m a huge Rick and Morty fan. Sometimes while watching it, I notice allegories and puns related to security, privacy, physics, psychology, and a wide range of scientific fields. Because of this, I’ve decided to review some Rick and Morty episode and share my observations with the wonderful folks who work in these fields and those who aspire to 😉 Enjoy! A machine force feeding a human. Being brutally and utterly dedicated to our whims, the robots show us how perverted…
Hacking Robots Before Skynet
Robots are going mainstream in both private and public sectors – on military missions, performing surgery, building skyscrapers, assisting customers at stores, as healthcare attendants, as business assistants, and interacting closely with our families in a myriad of ways. Robots are already showing up in many of these roles today, and in the coming years they will become an ever more prominent part of our home and business lives. But similar to other new technologies, recent IOActive research has found robotic technologies to be highly insecure in a variety of…
Harmful prefetch on Intel
We’ve seen a lot of articles and presentations that show how the prefetch instruction can be used to bypass modern OS kernel implementations of ASLR. Most of the public work however only focuses on getting base addresses of modules with the idea of building a ROP chain or maybe patching some pointer/value of the data section. This post represents an extension of previous work, as it documents the usage of prefetch to discover PTEs on Windows 10. You can find the code I used and perform the tests in…