2025-10-31 –, Main Hall
Reverse engineering of a wifi camera to get root access.
After locating the UART output we find it requires a password to access. We then go on the journey of extracting the firmware off the camera and identifying the operating system and partition table.
The firmware is unpacked and modified to remove the password. Everything is packaged back up again and reflashed onto the camera.
With root access we can start to learn what is happening on the camera.
To really understand what's happening on an embedded device we need to get root access. The problem is root is protected by a password.
This talk goes through the process of extracting the firmware from a wifi camera, unpacking and modifying it to remove the annoying password and reflashed back onto the camera.
I'm an old school hacker (less old and even less school) with the attention span of a fish.
My passion is reverse engineering with a little bit of app development thrown in.
Best known amongst my friends for the phases, "Ouch, don't touch that", "do you smell burning" and "It's only funny until someone gets hurt, then its hilarious"