Dragos ruiu biography of williams
Dragos Ruiu was just minding his own business, a Vancouver software startup, when it started..
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps
Another intriguing characteristic: in addition to jumping "airgaps" designed to isolate infected or sensitive machines from all other networked computers, the malware seems to have self-healing capabilities.
"We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed from a Windows system CD," Ruiu said.
A native of the Piedmont, in northern Italy, he grew up in a village near Turin, speaking one of the local dialects as his first language.
"At one point, we were editing some of the components and our registry editor got disabled. It was like: wait a minute, how can that happen? How can the machine react and attack the software that we're using to attack it? This is an air-gapped machine and all of a sudden the search function in the registry editor stopped working when we were using it to search for their keys."
Over the past two weeks, Ruiu has taken to Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus to document his investigative odyssey and share a theory that has captured the att