Hardware Hacking 101: A series of great hands-on articles about JTAG, UART, SPI, and hardware glitching. 👩🏻‍💻📟🛠️⚡️🎓

Below is a list of seven articles that cover the basics of hardware hacking (for SOHO devices and more). This series offers clear, practical explanations with plenty of pictures, making it easy for anyone to learn new hardware hacking techniques.

Thanks go to the authors: Sue Mohieldin, Taylor Centers, Cristian Vences, Kareem ElFaramawi, and Anthony DeLorenzo.

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More details:

🔬 Getting a root shell via UART [Blog]: https://riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2020/01/hw-101-uart/

🔬 Interfacing With SPI [Blog]: https://riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2020/02/hw-101-spi/

🔬 Identifying and Dumping eMMC Flash [Blog]: https://riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2020/03/hw-101-emmc/

🔬 Glitching into Privileged Shells [Blog]: https://riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2020/10/hw-101-glitching/

🔬 Introduction to JTAG [Blog]: https://riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2021/05/hw-101-jtag/

🔬 Identifying and Verifying JTAG on a Device [Blog]: https://riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2021/05/hw-101-jtag-part2/

🔬 Communicating with JTAG via OpenOCD [Blog]: https://riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2021/07/hw-101-jtag-part3/