Cyber Security Blog

This is the first of two chapters about adding x86_64 support to the open-source coreboot project on Intel platforms. You can find the second article here.. It started in 2018 when I   —  read more

We did it once - and we are doing it again!As part of our work here at 9elements - we brought Open-Source Firmware to the Supermicro X11SCH-F! The platform is the next   —  read more

In cooperation with one of our customers, we enabled a modern Intel Coffee Lake Platform with coreboot. The platform supports Intel's 8th/9th generation processors with up to 16 cores. The platform itself   —  read more

Modern firmware complexity increases with the hardware it runs on. Many hardware manufacturers decided to only release closed source. Some provide close source BLOBs to be used with open source firmware. Lacking a   —  read more

We’re always looking for interns hungry to learn about security, firmware development, and software engineering. Interns are full members of our team and contribute to the software projects we are working on,   —  read more

As provider for infrastructure services or "PaaS", such as VPN or Cloud-Storage, it is a necessity to trust your server vendor's firmware, especially if your company has limited resources in firmware engineering and   —  read more

Firmware is the most powerful software that runs on a platform. It can tear your security concerns apart if configured wrongly, and it can prevent your platform from booting if written faulty. So   —  read more

Updating the BIOS firmware can be a pain if vendors only provide binaries for Windows™ on their homepage, especially when you are running an open-source operating system.LVFSThanks to the Linux Vendor Firmware   —  read more