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MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware

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At the end of 2021, we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our Firmware Scanner , which has been integrated into Kaspersky products since the beginning of 2019. This one is made up of implants found in the UEFI firmware within the SPI flash, a non-volatile storage external to the hard drive.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

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In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started? So we settled upon the Internet of Things, or simply IoT.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started? So we settled upon the Internet of Things, or simply IoT.

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