Paul Asadoorian

Firmware security has been and continues to be, a passion of mine. This is just one reason I am excited to be working here at Eclypsium. Joining a firmware security company really got me thinking even more about the security of my own devices, specifically what lies at the firmware layer on my own d…

Start Your Management Engine In the process of scanning my systems for firmware vulnerabilities, I discovered that my Intel-based machines are vulnerable to a wide range of issues related to Intel’s Management Engine (ME). As it turns out this is a fairly common problem as one of our programs that h…

OpenSSL: Another Supply Chain Vulnerability By now, you’ve likely already heard that there is a new set of vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, a popular open-source library included in most Linux distributions and many other software packages (including firmware). The flaw exists in OpenSSL version 3.0.0 th…

A long time ago in a network far far away…

Mastodon is a social media platform based on open standards and protocols. It offers an alternative to corporate-owned social media platforms such as Twitter (and is the closest thing to a Twitter alternative available today). The Mastodon network is called the “Fediverse”, a series of independently…