August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 43m
English
CHAPTER 4
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The Engine: Safeguarding Itself before Safeguarding Others
To be a blacksmith, you must be tough yourself.
—Old Chinese Proverb
Alexander Tereshkin and Rafal Wojtczuk, from the Invisible Things Labs of Poland, introduced the concept of “Ring -3 rootkit” at the 2009 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.1 They presented an attack against host memory through a rootkit installed on Intel’s management engine. Audiences, many hearing about the management engine for the first time, were impressed by the sophisticated attack. People asked: If the embedded system itself is buggy, how could users trust it to safeguard users’ valuable assets? ...
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