[Ukfreebsd] Hiding things in hardware

Sevan / Venture37 venture37 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 20:16:58 GMT 2015


Hi,
There's been a couple of mentions of hiding things on hardware this
week over at twitter and I thought I might post about it here to get a
better understanding of the situation.

"L3 cache can be disabled on Atom CPUs; malware can hide in cache and
not write-back to RAM"
https://twitter.com/JacobTorrey/status/578198709659373568

The running discussion this weekend has been with dragosr and ARM SoCs

"ARM processors do have microcode in display system you can use to
hide a backdoor not in memory"
https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/579451641121804288 < more comments

Will Beri save the day? :)
Are we still completely helpless from the software side if the
hardware we're running on is bad?


Sevan


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