Presented at
REcon 2011,
July 9, 2011, 11 a.m.
(60 minutes)
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.
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