When you create custom firmware for routers, you often have to forge the signature so that your handmade microcode can be flushed using the stock web interface. To forge a signature, you must be familiar with the image validation procedure in the stock firmware. To get a general idea of this process, let’s reverse firmware embedded into the D-Link DIR-806A B1 router and find out how signature validation is implemented in it.

Humanity has created a whole bestiary of scripting languages ​​with low learning curves in an attempt to make the IT world accessible to imbeciles newbies who have completed a month-long course. Without question, Python is currently the king of beasts in this bestiary. The creeping reptile has entangled the entire IT industry with its rings so much that even a neural network cannot be trained without it. If so, time has come to dissect the serpent and look at its insides. Let’s start with a technology called PyInstaller.

Modern aircraft continuously transmit telemetry to each other using the ADS-B protocol. In this article, I will explain how to create your own imaginary plane and demonstrate how data transmission works. Important: all actions described below will be performed in strict compliance with the respective laws and safety regulations.

Wherever you are, aircraft frequently pass overhead; sometimes several ones in a few minutes. Services like Flightradar24 provide precise real-time information about these flights using data received over the ADS-B protocol. You can also receive and decode such data; just follow instructions provided in this guide!

This article discusses an important matter every cool hacker programmer should care about: secure code. Perhaps, you think it’s boring and difficult? Not at all! Today I will share with you some of my experience and show how to write Python code you can be proud of.

Today you will learn how to write a cheat for an online shooter. This cheat will implement such hacks as extrasensory perception (ESP) and aimbot. ESP displays player information above their heads (e.g. player’s health, name, or current weapon); while aimbot automatically aims your weapons at other players.