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● 07.14.15

●● Governments-Connected ‘Hacking Team’ Targets UEFI, Reveal Leaks

Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Security at 12:54 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: The insecurity and abundant complexity/extensibility of UEFI is already exploited by crackers who are serving corrupt regimes and international empires

TECHRIGHTS has spent many years writing about dangers of Microsoft back doors and about 3 years writing about UEFI which, according to various citations we gathered, enables governments to remotely brick (at hardware level) computers at any foreign country, in bulk! This is a massive national security threat and Germany was notable in reacting to it (forbidding the practice). Among our posts which cover this:

=> ↺ dangers of Microsoft back doors | ↺ UEFI

NSA Confirms Remote Computer Bricking by BIOS (or UEFI) as a Real StrategyUEFI is Bricking Computers When One Removes Spyware With Back Doors (Microsoft Windows)If You Use Microsoft Windows, the NSA Can Brick Your Computer Hardware RemotelyWindows Vista 8.1, or Windows ‘Brick Edition’, Shows That UEFI is Malicious, Opposite of ‘Secure’Ignore the Spin: Microsoft’s UEFI Programme Still Bricking LaptopsWhy Samsung Hardware With UEFI Boot Gets Bricked by LinuxUEFI ‘Secure’ Boot is Not About Security, Insyde Software’s Business Model is Misguided and DangerousMicrosoft’s Anticompetitive Attack on GNU/Linux Booting is Bricking LaptopsUEFI Restricted Boot No Longer Valid for Security, Keys LeakedUEFI Restricted Boot Good for Microsoft Agenda, Not for SecurityMicrosoft Can’t Understand Security (Lesson for UEFI Apologists)UEFI Apologists Versus Germany’s Government Judgment on UEFI InsecurityRed Hat Fails to Convince That UEFI is Tolerable, Uses ‘Security’ as Talking Point

Today we learn that UEFI firmware updates spread to the most widely used GNU/Linux desktop distribution and yesterday we learned that “HackingTeam has code for UEFI module for BIOS persistency of RCS 9 agent (i.e. survives even HD replace)…”

=> ↺ UEFI firmware updates spread to the most widely used GNU/Linux desktop distribution

Rik Ferguso wrote this with link to the PowerPoint presentation, pointing to leaked E-mails via Wikileaks. The push back against UEFI ought to be empowered by such revelations, perhaps in the same way that these leaks now threaten to kill Adobe Flash for good. █

=> ↺ Rik Ferguso wrote | ↺ leaked E-mails via Wikileaks

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