Hardware hacking for beginners: UART serial access and SPI flash programmers. 🔩🔬👨🏻‍💻📜🤓

Security researcher Aryan Shrestha, in an ongoing series of blog posts, shares his tools - and how to use them, and why - for hardware hacking. These beginner-friendly posts explore how to start analyzing embedded devices like routers, cameras, IoT hubs, and smart devices.

For now, the author has published two topics:

1. Part 1 focuses on UART/TTL serial access, described as the first thing to check because many devices leave internal debug ports enabled.

2. Part 2 builds on that by covering SPI flash programmers, which are used when UART access is blocked or limited.

If you are starting your journey in hardware hacking (or planning to do so soon) check out these blog posts. I am sure you will find some inspiration there to get started. And if you know someone who may be interested in starting, please send it to her/him.

More details:

Tools I Use in Hardware Hacking

Part 1 - UART/TTL [Blog]: https://aryanstha.medium.com/tools-i-use-in-hardware-hacking-part-1-uart-ttl-f90ce752afe5

Part 2 - SPI Flash Programmers [Blog]: https://aryanstha.medium.com/tools-i-use-in-hardware-hacking-part-2-spi-flash-programmers-88964aa0e23a