August 20, 2013

Introduction to UEFI Firmware, September 22

Event: Introduction to UEFI Firmware
When: Sunday, 2013-09-22
Speaker: blibbet
Cost: FREE
Talk: ~2pm-4pm
Where: 17725 NE 65th St A-155, Redmond, WA 98052                


--- The Event ---

This is a class introducing UEFI firmware, for pentesters and sysadmins, with more than a bit for developers.

* Learn UEFI Forum's firmware architecture, the TianoCore open source project, and the EDK-II, UDK, and EADK toolchains.  Demos of toolchain installation and usage, on Windows and Ubuntu.

* Learn about building firmware images, and the handful of companies that sell their implementation.  No demos.

* Learn about boot loaders, and the EFI approaches taken by the main commerical OS vendors and the various different the Linux vendors.  No demos.

* Learn about native EFI images, the multiple different driver and application models.  And Intel's EFI bytecode.  No demos.

* Learn about the UEFI Shell, the ~66 commands, writing/invoking scripts. Demos of shell and multiple commands.

* Learn about existing EFI test code, including the EFI version of CPython, and and 3rd party open source pentest tools.  Maybe some demos.


--- Needed to Participate ---
Eyes and ears only, no laptop required.

To better understand the UEFI Shell, it really helps to first understand the Windows cmd.exe shell and the POSIX sh/Linux bash shell. To use the virtual environment, knowledge of QEMU is needed.
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