embedded systems

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2015
Press backspace 28 times to hack a Linux PC with Grub2

The researchers Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll have found that the Grub2 authentication could be easily defeated by hitting backspace 28 times. A couple of researchers from the University of Valencia’s Cybersecurity research group, Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll, have found that the Grub2 bootloader is plagued by a serious vulnerability that can be exploited by […]