Hacking Toshiba Laptops

Explore a fascinating journey into hacking a 14-year-old Toshiba laptop to create a keygen for its BIOS password recovery mechanism in this conference talk from Recon Brussels 2018. Discover how the unexpected acquisition of EC firmware signing keys enables the planting of a stealth and persistent rootkit. Examine the implications for newer Toshiba laptop models. Learn from Michał 'Redford' Kowalczyk, vice-captain of the Dragon Sector CTF team and passionate reverse engineer, and Serge 'q3k' Bazanski, systems engineer and hacker of all trades, as they share their expertise in reverse engineering, broken crypto, interesting obfuscation, and hardware hacking.