Routers – Michael Coppola

DEF CON 20 Presentation

Jul 23, 2012

By the way, I will be presenting “Owning the Network: Adventures in Router Rootkits” this Sunday, 12 noon at DEF CON 20. If you enjoy ownage, networks, adventures, routers, and rootkits, this talk is for you. I’ll be releasing my firmware generation/manipulation framework at the talk, which will be made available on the site shortly…

NETGEAR unsquashfs.c version 1.3

Apr 18, 2012

Last month I posted a portion of a ridiculous conversation with NETGEAR over source code it withheld to unpack the filesystem on one of its routers. I would like to announce that against all expectations, NETGEAR actually pulled through and sent me the source code I was looking for! As mentioned previously, I posted a…

An Interesting Conversation with NETGEAR

Mar 4, 2012

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…