Brute force attack a BIOS with Arduino
November 14th, 2011
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The goal of this experiment is to convert the Arduino board into an USB keyboard plus a VGA sniffer to crack the password of a standard BIOS using the brute force attack method. There are no advantages in using this method, in fact this can be very slow and you may never find the password at all, but as always we do it for fun. It’s just a proof of concept, there are many ways of resetting a BIOS specially if you have access to the hardware, and you need it anyway because we’re talking about BIOS and there is no “remote access” as far as I know.
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