| You might want to have a look at Bossard's presentation from defcon20 (2012?), "Hardware backdooring is possible": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqbvxrJqrPU He's done a few of these, so I might be getting them mixed up -- but the message is basically that x86 (and by extension amd64) is hopelessly broken due to legacy crap that sort of hides between the cpu, ram and devices (the software running on your cdrom drive, on the network or sound card...). Also related: 4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk [ed2: Skip to ~14-15 minutes to get to the good stuff, then go back and watch the whole thing :) software home page and demo download (I don't think there's anything new published): https://sites.google.com/site/xxcantorxdustxx/ https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-12/Arsenal/Domas/_cantor.du... ed: More recent presentation, looks to be the same:
http://recon.cx/2013/schedule/events/20.html ] Again related to (but as far as I remember does not reference [edit: I was wrong, he does indeed reference this]): Black Hat USA 2010: Voyage of the Reverser: A Visual Study of Binary Species 1/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xw6pIbd2Hc #HITB2013AMS D2T1 Sebastien Kaczmarek - Dreamboot - A UEFI Bootkit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvTUE5P-Yhs |