Team Research blog
Earlier this year we did a web application assessment where our client made extensive use of protobufs sent over HTTP. For those who haven’t come across it, Protobuf is a library developed by Google for serializing messages to a compact binary format. Protobufs are often used for developing different types of network protocols, and sometimes … Read more
In the last Dropcam post, I wrote about reversing the USB setup procedure that the Dropcam uses to initially connect to your WiFi network. After exploring the USB tunneling protocol, the next step was to take it apart, or at least take off the back of the enclosure: The main controller is an Ambarella A5s … Read more
The “Internet of Things” marketplace has been blowing up recently, and towards the end of last year we began seeing a lot of demand for security assessments of these types of platforms. To practice, we wanted to reverse engineer a consumer platform from scratch and look around for security vulnerabilities. What follows is the first … Read more