Michael Coppola

Michael Coppola

  • An Interesting Conversation with NETGEAR

    For the past 8 months or so, I’ve been heading a project on reverse engineering router firmware with the end goal of developing a generalized, repeatable, effective technique to backdoor router firmwares images (and ultimately the devices they are flashed upon).  While I have much to share about my research and progress so far, it…

  • Anatomy of a SCADA Exploit: Part 1 – From Overflow to EIP

    Introduction On November 29, 2011, Luigi Auriemma published a security advisory containing multiple vulnerabilities in the 3S CoDeSys Automation Suite.  Like much of the other software Auriemma has researched in past months, CoDeSys is SCADA software.  For those who aren’t familiar with the term, SCADA stands for “Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition,” which is just…

  • Rooting the Samsung Infuse 4G

    I received a Samsung Infuse 4G this year for Christmas, and one of the first questions I had was how to let this bad boy run free.  Doing a little searching around, it looked like the device was already rootable by the RageAgainstTheCage exploit by the Android Exploid Crew, but of course using an already-written,…