Recon - PREVIEW

Recon 2011

Speakers
Alexandre Gazet
Schedule
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.