DMTF releases SMBIOS 3.2

June 2, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

The premier standard for delivering management information via system firmware – DMTF’s System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) – is newly updated in Version 3.2: https://t.co/3EqxO51itJ

— DMTF (@DMTF) May 31, 2018

Version 3.2 of SMBIOS adds support for current technologies, including USB Type-C, PCIe bifurcation and new processors. In addition, the standard extends support for NVDIMMs and adds support for logical memory type.

https://www.dmtf.org/content/dmtf-releases-smbios-32

https://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios

Click to access DSP0134_3.2.0.pdf

AMI releases info on AMIBIOS8

June 1, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

I’m not sure, but I think AMI just updated AMIBIOS8 (I see a slew of new PDFs, but no press release or Tweet, so unclear):

https://ami.com/en/products/bios-uefi-firmware/amibios-8/

https://ami.com/en/resources/resource-library/?product=AMIBIOS%208&productid=17&type=datasheets

https://ami.com/en/resources/resource-library/?product=AMIBIOS%208&productid=17&type=related

Inside Microsoft’s Azure Sphere hardware for secure IoT

June 1, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

Simon BIsson of InfoWorld has an article on Microsoft Azure Sphere, about various security components, and a bit on Sphere OS, their Linux distro.

At #MSBuild I got to spend some time with Galen Hunt, the man behind many of Microsoft's OS innovations. This time, however, we were talking hardware; with a deep dive into his latest project Azure Sphere.https://t.co/xEyShT2YxL

— Simon Bisson (@sbisson) May 29, 2018

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3276607/internet-of-things/inside-microsofts-azure-sphere-hardware-for-secure-iot.html#tk.twt_ifw

Red Hat update on Spectre/Meltdown

June 1, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

See the blog document, not just the short video. 😉

Speculative Store Bypass explained by @RedHatSecurity: what it is, how it works: https://t.co/UimXj7dlLm #infosec #cybersecurity @RedHatSecurity #ssbd pic.twitter.com/OYaKfnh73h

— Red Hat (@RedHat) May 29, 2018

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/speculative-store-bypass-explained-what-it-how-it-works?sc_cid=701f2000000tyBjAAI

MountEFI: An even more robust edition of my previous MountEFI scripts

June 1, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

Re: https://firmwaresecurity.com/2018/02/04/mountefi-mac-tool-to-select-drive-containing-an-efi-to-mount/

An even more robust edition of my previous MountEFI scripts.

https://github.com/corpnewt/MountEFI

EFI-TPM2-Utils: TPM 2.0 tools running in EFI environment

June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

“This project provides various TPM 2.0 applications running in EFI.”

https://github.com/jiazhang0/efi-tpm2-utils

https://github.com/jiazhang0/efi-tpm2-utils/tree/master/src/efi

Nera: UEFI boot manager with kernel images signature validation

June 1, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

All of the documentation: “UEFI boot manager with kernel images signature validation.”

https://github.com/Flynston/Nera

AMI retires DuOS

June 1, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ 1 Comment

Re: https://firmwaresecurity.com/2015/06/16/ami-ami-duos-runs-android-and-windows-no-rebooting/

AMI killed off this OS earlier in March:

https://ami.com/en/tech-blog/farewell-amiduos/

https://ami.com/en/amiduos/

Farewell, AMIDuOS

I wonder how things would have turned out if AMI let DuOS try to live on as open source project, instead of just killing off the closed-source product?