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Podcast: DEF CON 22 [Materials] Speeches from the Hacker Convention.
Episode: Panel - Summary of Attacks Against BIOS and Secure Boot
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Summary of Attacks Against BIOS and Secure Boot
Yuriy Bulygin CHIEF THREAT ARCHITECT, INTEL SECURITY
Oleksandr Bazhaniuk SECURITY RESEARCHER, INTEL SECURITY
Andrew Furtak SECURITY RESEARCHER, INTEL SECURITY
John Loucaides SECURITY RESEARCHER, INTEL SECURITY
A variety of attacks targeting platform firmware have been discussed publicly, drawing attention to the pre-boot and firmware components of the platform such as secure boot, OS loaders, and SMM. Windows 8 Secure Boot provides an important protection against bootkits by enforcing a signature check on each...