Finally back home from China and Japan tour, so it’s time to finally release the updated slides about EFI Monsters. After Secuinside I updated them a bit, fixing stuff I wasn’t happy with and adding some new content.

The updated version was first presented at 44CON London. I had serious reservations about going to the UK (not even in transit!) but Steve Lord and Adrian charm convinced me to give it a try. 44CON was great and it’s definitely a must attend European conference. It has the perfect size to meet people and share ideas. I prefer single track conferences, dual track is the max I’m interested in. More than that it’s just too big, too messy, too many choices to be made regarding what to see.

A big thanks to everyone at 44CON who made it possible!

Next was SyScan360 in Beijing. It was the fourth time it happened, and my third time in a row. I do like very much to go there because even with language barriers you can feel what’s happening there. Bought a bunch of (cheap) hardware gear made by 360 Unicorn team. Their USB condom is super cheap and super small. Also bought a network tap and a USB to serial (don’t really needed it but it was damn cheap). The SyScan360 badge as usual was super fun, this time with a micro Arduino, Bluetooth and LED modules. Conference went pretty smooth and had lots of fun. They had a gigantic LED panel where slides were displayed at. That was some gigantic TV they had there.

Big thanks to everyone involved in SyScan360 2015.

Last stop, was CODE BLUE happening in my current favorite city outside Portugal, Tokyo. Third time happening, my second in a row. Organization is top notch, everything goes smoothly. Congrats to Kana, El Kentaro, Tessy, and everyone else involved. This year it had two tracks, and a lot more attendees. It’s definitely a conference to put on your calendar. The audience is super interested in learning. Japan is lagging behind in terms of security so they are keen to finally catch up.

Some people approached me and shown some interested about (U)EFI security. This is great, that was the goal of this presentation, to show people (U)EFI research isn’t that hard and that it is really important its issues start to be fixed. We need to start building trustable foundations and not try to solve everything in software on top of platforms we can’t really trust.

Last conference for the year is No cON Name happening in Barcelona next December.

For next year I already got something that hopefully I’ll be able to present at SyScan360 Singapore. Their CFP is open and you should definitely think about submitting.

There were minor changes between 44CON and SyScan360/Code Blue slides. The latter included more references than 44CON version and minor fixes.

Have fun,
fG!

Slides:
44Con 2015 – Efi Monsters.pdf
SyScan360 2015 – Efi Monsters.pdf
CodeBlue 2015 – Efi Monsters.pdf