Patching kernel code at runtime is bad idea... or is it?| Samuel Tulach
In this blog post we explain the consequences of asking our R&D boss for a Steam Deck as a Christmas gift. It involves a couple of vulnerabilities, limited primitives, challenging exploitation and a long disclosure process.| Quarkslab's blog
The title says it all — well, not quite because the full description is more involved and nuanced. This post on LinkedIn from Sameer Agarwal, an Intune engineer at Microsoft, explains more: […]| Out of Office Hours
This post discusses signing the systemd-boot EFI binary on upgrade using the dpkg trigger mechanism.| Random Ramblings
While doing some Autopilot (v1) pre-provisioning work using the latest Windows 11 Insider Canary ring build (27695), I noticed a new item in the UI: If you try it out, you can see a rough version o…| Out of Office Hours
I always thought the process of creating Windows USB media was pretty simple: take a USB key, format it as FAT32, then XCOPY the contents of an ISO to that USB key. But there are some complications…| Out of Office Hours
In case you didn’t already know, the Extensible Firmware Infrastructure’s Human Interface Infrastructure uses Internal Forms Representation protocol to display things like your setup utility’s menu. By having access to the Internal Forms Representation, we can know everything about a menu which can assist us immensely when modding bios. I’ll also be using this application in a few of the tutorials I write, so get used to using it now 🙂 I was getting tired of all the requests to ...| Bios Mods -The Best BIOS Update and Modification Source
This article documents the exciting work being done by some of the top contributors in our forum. The modifications performed on systems like the Dell 15z reflect the most advanced examples of BIOS modifications done within our community. For more information, please visit the thread. Phoenix SecureCore Tiano, used by Dell, is a tough nut to crack – we came to what we have today by taking little steps on a road that wasn’t smooth to begin with. Phoenix nor Dell have provided a...| Bios Mods -The Best BIOS Update and Modification Source
The social media DMs, e-mails, and blog comments around Autopilot v2 have raised a bunch of questions, interesting points, speculation, opinions, etc. I figured it would be useful to summarize thos…| Out of Office Hours
Yes, I know the official name is “Windows Autopilot Device Preparation.” But that’s too much of a mouthful and doesn’t really even describe what this is, other than “s…| Out of Office Hours
You’ve probably run into a scenario like this before and never understood why: You assign a new, seemingly harmless policy into a configuration profile in Intune, and now the device reboots a…| Out of Office Hours
August 25, 2022 Windows KB5012170 is turning out to be one of those patches that is causing a ton of headaches. The biggest one is for those user’s that got the lovely BitLocker Recovery screen but had no idea what their BitLocker recovery key is or where to find it. This happened to my father-in-law’s…| Mike's Tech Blog
Bye Bye BIOS: a tool for when you need to warn users the VM image is EFI only| www.berrange.com