Cyber Security Blog

The coreboot firmware has just received a new patch adding Software Bill of Materials (SBoM). The SBoM concept has been mainly driven by Richard Hughes and has been derived from an executive order   —  read more

A new toy to play with OpenBMC I wanted to play around with OpenBMC on a physical board and this article led me to the ASRock E3C246D4I. It's a not overly expensive Intel   —  read more

FSP-T in open source projects X86 CPUs boot up in a very bare state. They execute the first instruction at the top of memory mapped flash in 16 bit real mode. DRAM is   —  read more

I started working for 9elements in October 2020 and my first assignment was to get Intel CBnT working on the OCP Deltalake using coreboot firmware. Intel Converged Bootguard and TXT is a hardware   —  read more

We recently worked on some patches to adopt netboot.xyz and integrate it into LinuxBoot - and it got merged now.Netboot.xyzSo - what is netboot.xyz? From there website:netboot.xyz   —  read more

Naturally using Open Source Software, one of our goals is to contribute back into the community to improve and broaden the usability of these OSS projects. One of these projects is Google's Go-TPM   —  read more

It is official now - We joined the OpenComputeProject and applied for a community level membership tier!The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) was initiated by Facebook in 2011 with a mission to   —  read more

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