Analysis of the building blocks and attack vectors associated with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

While Operating Systems have seen tremendous and very visible developments, driven by the evolution of hardware components, there are still some remnants from the 8086-era, one of which is the BIOS. Led by a consortium of vendors, the industry is now implementing a new style of BIOS which, by...

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Jean-Franc Agneessens

May 2, 2013

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