Recon - PREVIEW
Recon 2011
| Speakers | |
|---|---|
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Alexandre Gazet |
| Schedule | |
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| Day | Saturday - 2011-07-09 |
| Room | Grand Salon |
| Start time | 11:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 102 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Main |
Sticky Fingers & KBC Custom Shop
Fun at low-level
Firmware and embedded software have already targets of choice in the past. In the same spirit, this talk will discuss about how an attacker can take advantages of a laptop's keyboard controller.
The keyboard controller (KBC) or embedded controller (EC) is most often an unknown component of our laptop. It is an independent computation unit, alongside the main processor. Firmwares and embedded software have already targets of choice in the past (network cards, chipset, etc.). During this talk we will discuss the interaction of the EC with the rest of the system (bios code and operating system) and the potential benefit for an attacker to compromise such a component.