LEAKED: Intel’s BIOS Source Code — All 6GB of It

LEAKED: Intel’s BIOS Source Code — All 6GB of It

Source code for the Intel Alder Lake processor EUFI BIOS has gone walkies. 4chan is said to be involved ...
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Why Microsoft’s Hardware Baseline for Windows 11 Is Important

From the 80s through the 90s, Microsoft didn’t take security seriously. They acted as if it was someone else’s job, and companies like Symantec and McAfee came to market and flourished. But, ...

TPM-Fail Attacks Against Cryptographic Coprocessors

Really interesting research: TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks, by Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Nadia Heninger. Abstract: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) serves as a hardware-based root of trust ...
TPM-FAIL: Intel and STMicro ‘Fix’ 26-Year-Old Vulnerability

TPM-FAIL: Intel and STMicro ‘Fix’ 26-Year-Old Vulnerability

Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) aren’t so trusted today. Intel and STMicro have had to release fixes for timing attacks ...
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Privileged Access Management Issues? Enter Tripwire Password Manager

So, you have 2000 network devices in your environment and everyone is telling you that you have to rotate all 2000 device passwords every 30, 60 or 90 days (at a minimum) ...
Thoughts on Firmware Rootkits

Thoughts on Firmware Rootkits

Over the last couple of years I've presented a number of low level attacks aimed at demonstrating off-disk rootkit persistence in firmware.Vulnerability research into hardware typically has a high barrier to entry; ...