May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
12h 21m
English

Security products nowadays tend to focus on threats that operate at the high levels of the software stack, and they achieve reasonably good results. However, this leaves them unable to see what’s going on in the dark waters of firmware. If an attacker has already gained privileged access to the system and installed a firmware implant, these products are useless.
Very few security products examine firmware, and those that do only do so from the operating system level, detecting the presence of implants only after they’ve successfully installed and compromised the system. More complex implants can also use their privileged ...
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