Do you know how a hard drive works? Come find out with me as I dump, reverse engineer, and modify firmware for various HDDs and SSDs. In part 1 I’ll cover the basics of hard drive internals, firmware analysis, and even use JTAG to debug a live HDD.
Hunting for bugs in the Xbox 360 hypervisor and exploiting them to get hypervisor mode code execution. This post covers how I developed the Xbox 360 Bad Update exploit.
Diving into the heart of the Xbox 360 security system: the hypervisor. How does it work? Why is it so secure? Find out the answers to these questions and more as I cover the architecture of the Xbox 360 hypervisor and hardware security features that made it nearly impenetrable for 20 years.
