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Black Hat 2013 Showcases Home Security, Bootkits, Cellular OPSEC Failures

The next Briefing moves from securing buildings to securing computers. UEFI hasn't turned into the security panacea some backers suggested, with a number of practical bootkits already in the wild.

Black Hat 2013 Showcases Home Security, Bootkits, Cellular OPSEC Failures

Mario Vuksan and Tomislav Pericin'sPress ROOT to Continue: Detecting MacOS and Windows Bootkits with RDFU will detail the creation of their Rootkit Detection Framework for UEFI ("RDFU"), which addresses the bootkit threat across a range of UEFI implementations. After the talk they'll release the RDFU's source code along with whitepapers outlining possible uses.

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