BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered (Uncovered series) (Paperback)

by Darmawan Salihun (Author)

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Product Description

Explaining security vulnerabilities, possible exploitation scenarios, and prevention in a systematic manner, this guide to BIOS exploitation describes the reverse-engineering techniques used to gather information from BIOS and expansion ROMs. SMBIOS/DMI exploitation techniques—including BIOS rootkits and computer defense—and the exploitation of embedded x86 BIOS are also covered.

About the Author

Darmawan Salihun has published papers on BIOS reverse engineering, BIOS code injection techniques, BIOS hacking, Plug and Play BIOS, and PCI protocol exploitation in the CodeBreakers Journal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: A-List Publishing (October 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931769605
• ISBN-13: 978-1931769600
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #106,400 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars everything you need to tweak the bios in your computer, July 4, 2007

By	David Feustel (Fort Wayne, IN USA) - See all my reviews

I did some work with the PC-AT BIOS and
BIOS extension roms 25 years ago, so
when I found out about this book I
ordered it immediately. Having read 1/2
of it and having built some of the
software (chapter 7) on the cdrom, I
give this book 5 stars, but with a
caveat. This book and its cdrom are
heavily Microsoft Windows-centric.
Doing things with the files on the cdrom
using linux or *bsd instead of Microsoft
Windows, while not difficult, will be
accompanied by a certain amount of pain
as the doer massages file formatting to
make the files work with the gcc
toolchain. It's even worse in my case
since I am running 64-bit OpenBSD and I
can't run any 32-bit software (eg Fasm)
on the 64-bit version of OpenBSD.

The reader of this book not familiar
with x86 assembly code had better have a
dos x86 assembly tutorial handy. All the
BIOS code is written in 16-bit x86
assembly.

That said, this is a uniquely
informative book on PC BIOS-related
hardware and I recommend it highly to
those who want to learn all about the
workings of the BIOS, either AWARD or AMI.