UEFI & SMM Vulnerabilities – Jesse Michael – PSW #764
Navigating the UEFI waters is treacherous. While UEFI has become the standard on most PCs, servers, and laptops, replacing legacy BIOS, it is a complex set of standards and protocols. Jesse joins us to help explain how some of this works and describe how vulnerabilities, specifically with SMM, can manifest and be exploited.
Segment Resources: CHIPSEC GitHub
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Jesse Michael is an experienced security researcher focused on vulnerability detection and mitigation who has worked at all layers of modern computing environments from exploiting worldwide corporate network infrastructure down to hunting vulnerabilities inside processors at the hardware design level. His primary areas of expertise include reverse engineering embedded firmware and exploit development. He has also presented research at DEF CON, Black Hat, PacSec, Hackito Ergo Sum, Ekoparty, and BSides Portland.
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