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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781931769600
ISBN: 1931769605
Label: A-List Publishing
Manufacturer: A-List Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 450
Publication Date: 2006-10-28
Publisher: A-List Publishing
Studio: A-List Publishing
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: everything you need to tweak the bios in your computer
Comment: 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.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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