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Firmware security checks and IoT network security
In Mobile Enterprise, Laurie Lamberth and Steve Brumer have a story on IoT network security. Previous articles on topic have mentioned issues with out-of-date device firmware. Excerpt: 3. Periodic...
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LegbaCore releases new firmware research at RSA Conference
LegbaCore gave a firmware security talk at last month’s RSA Security Conference. The presentation materials and some video, are online. LegbaCore, along with Invisible Things Lab are IMO the top two...
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VZ on network usage of UEFI 2.5
Vincent Zimmer of Intel recently gave a presentation on use of UEFI 2.5 and Cloud-related issues. The talk was given at the Open Compute Project, and recently reprised at the Spring UEFI Forum event....
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Microsoft increases use of Secure Boot as marketing tool
Earlier this week, Sam Varghese wrote an article in iTWire about Windows 10 and UEFI. According to the article, Window 10 will not enable Secure Boot unless the system has a Windows 8-compliant logo....
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Joe Grand: Tools of the Hardware Hacking Trade
Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio gave a presentation on “Tools of the Hardware Hacking Trade” a few weeks ago at RSA Conference: “Embedded systems are pervasive in our society and many contain design...
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LegaCore releases new research
Yesterday LegbaCore updated their website to include some more research: “Added the How Many Million BIOSes Would you Like to Infect whitepaper to our Research page. This document contains more...
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Tracking Intel BIOS and UEFI updates
Here’re two resources that you should be tracking, if you care about firmware security. In addition to OEM-specific sites, these are very useful to track updates in UEFI- and Intel-based systems: 1)...
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Firmware Security document collection project on Github
I just noticed a new github project: https://github.com/robguti/firmware_security_docs It is a collection of PDFs about firmware security, mostly security conference presentations, gathered up into a...
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Twitter’s firmware researcher community list
I’m new to Twitter, still don’t have an account. A while ago I started looking into the right Twitter feeds to read: http://firmwaresecurity.com/2015/07/22/firmware-twitter-feeds-v0-3/ but I’ve not...
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firmware-security list on Twitter
Back when this blog was first started, Jacob Torrey created a firmware-security list on Twitter to help. Newer readers of the blog may not be aware of that list. If you’re on Twitter, and have sources...
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