Showing posts with label Other Firmware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Other Firmware. Show all posts
Monday, January 30, 2017

IBM OpenPower Firmware Source Code Brief Analysis

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First post this year ;-) I'm taking a detour to other hardware architecture here, despite this blog is focused on x86/x86-64. As for w...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Base-board Management Controller (BMC) Firmware Security

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The security of the BMC firmware is very important, as compromising it means unfettered remote access to the target machine. There has been ...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Gentle Introduction to Coreboot

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I've just stumbled upon this series of articles by   Lennart Benschop  about Coreboot. It's a very smooth introduction to Coreboot t...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

AMBA-PCIe Interoperability

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The native bus in ARM systems, Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) [see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Microcontroller...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

(First-Party) DMA Malware Paper

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This paper is really interesting: http://www.stewin.org/papers/dimvap15-stewin.pdf --------------------------------------------------- Abs...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Thoughts on Memory Allocation in Firmware (Particularly BIOS/UEFI related)

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Memory allocation in firmware is basically not the same as one we would find on applications running in an OS because it's an "OS-f...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Reversing Applications Running on DOS Extender

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Some BIOS/Firmware-related utilities are running in DOS "extender" mode, i.e. 32-bit Flat Protected mode. Reversing this kind of e...