BSM April 2020 - Virtual Meetup

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This time we are doing it different

We will be hosting one talk on Zoom and will have a few breakout rooms setup for individual chatter and specific topic discussion.

1. You will be muted as soon as you join the Zoom meeting.
2. Request the host to be put up in a breakout room of your choice.
3. You can also request the host to help join a breakout room on Slack.
4. Slack invites are based on email. Please connect on meetup to be invited.

Zoom Meeting Link will be available to those who RSVP

Zoom meeting will open up at 6 30 PM and talk will start at 7 PM

This month's talk
Topic - " Intro to (and Defeating of) the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) " - by Jeff Spielberg

A small piece of hardware, the trusted platform module (TPM), is at the root of how phones, computers, servers, and other devices assure the of integrity of code they run – from the bootloader through OS. I provide a brief intro to TPMs, why they’re so critical, and how they work. Next, I show hardware-based attacks against TPMs which we recently demonstrated can allow loading of malicious code or opening back-doors in commercial servers. Attendees should come away with a basic understanding of how TPMs work and how they’re not an invincible as most people think!

Speaker Bio: Jeff Spielberg is into Embedded / IoT security – hardware, firmware, and up the stack. He has a background in Electrical engineering and tinkers with microcontrollers and lots of hardware.