Jonathan Brossard
{{Short description|French computer scientist}}
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| caption = Jonathan Brossard at the Defcon Conference in Las Vegas in 2016
| name = Jonathan Brossard
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| nationality = French
| field = Computer science
| workplaces = Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
| known_for = Hardware backdoor, Watch Dogs
| website = {{URL|https://endrazine.com}}
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Jonathan Brossard also known as endrazine, is a French hacker, engineer and a Professor of computer science at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers.{{cite web | title = Jonathan Brossard Academic Page| url = https://cedric.cnam.fr/lab/en/author/brossardj/|publisher=Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers}} He is best known as a pioneer in firmware cybersecurity, having presented the first public example of a hardware backdoor. The MIT Technology Review called it "undetectable and uncurable". He has presented several times at conferences such as Defcon and Blackhat, as the Director of Security at Salesforce.
Research
In 2008, Jonathan presented the first public vulnerability affecting full disk encryption software Microsoft Bitlocker. at Defcon. His generic exploit also affected other full disk encryption software such as Truecrypt, and BIOS firmware from Intel.
In 2012, Jonathan presented a Proof of Concept BIOS and PCI firmware malware. named Rakshasa, the first known example of a permanent Hardware backdoor at Defcon and Blackhat. The attack consisted in the inclusion of a Bootkit in firmware either from the BIOS or Network cards.
In 2015, along with the security team at Salesforce, he presented at Blackhat the first public attacks against Microsoft Edge. and the Windows 10 operating system, allowing credential theft over the internet. Researchers discovered that Google Chrome was vulnerable to the very same Server Message Block vulnerability.
Jonathan is the main author of the Witchcraft Compiler Collection, a reverse engineering framework presented at major conferences including Defcon, Blackhat and USENIX. This framework allowing to transform an ELF binary into a shared library is available on Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu or the Kali Linux distribution.
Jonathan served as a security expert for major media outlets, for instance in the XKeyscore program disclosed by Edward Snowden, mass surveillance programs, when the NSA allegedly hacked French President Nicolas Sarkozy's emails, or warning the industry about car hacking as early as 2012.
Hacking culture
In 2014 Jonathan was the main cybersecurity consultant to the Watch Dogs by Ubisoft, presenting the game to an international press audience in Chicago, with global coverage including Australia, Deutschland, France or Spain. In 2016, Jonathan was also the main consultant for the second opus of the franchise Watch Dogs 2 and presented it to the international press.
In 2012, Jonathan, along with other top security researchers including Chris Valasek, Matt Suiche and Jon Oberheide submitted a bogus, computer-generated article on Nmap to the Hakin9 security magazine, as a way to protest against the constant spamming of top researchers by the magazine. While the stunt was praised by hackers, the response of Hakin9, legally threatening fellow Nmap author Gordon Lyon was so terrible that it earned the Pwnie Awards for most epic fail in 2013.
Jonathan is the co-founder of international cybersecurity conferences Hackito Ergo Sum and NoSuchCon. He also sits on the review boards of the Shakacon (Honolulu, USA) and Nullcon (Goa, India) conferences.
See also
References
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| url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/si_team/archive/2008/09/04/bitlocker-pre-boot-authentication.aspx
| title=BitLocker, Brossard's Pre-boot Authentication Research, and the BSI
| publisher=Microsoft Security
| access-date=2024-08-14
| archive-date=2015-07-01
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701060406/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/si_team/archive/2008/09/04/bitlocker-pre-boot-authentication.aspx
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| title=Bypassing pre-boot authentiation passwords by instrumenting the BIOS keyboard buffer |publisher=Defcon Conference}}
| title=Black Hat: Researcher Demonstrates Hardware Backdoor |publisher=Dark Reading}}
| title=Whitehat Jonathan Brossard Warns Cars Can be Hacked on the Road| date=31 May 2014|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald}}
| title=Watch Dogs 2, il videogioco sui Big Data per i Millennials| date=14 November 2016|publisher=Corriere de la Sierra|lang=it}}
| title=Un jeu qui pourrait devenir réalité| date=27 May 2014|publisher=Le Parisien|lang=fr}}
| title=" J'étais pas bon en foot, je me suis dit : "Tiens, je vais faire du hacking" "| date=25 December 2014|publisher=Le Nouvel Observateur|lang=fr}}
{{Cite web | url=https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/wcc/wcc.1.en.html
| title=The Witchcraft Compiler Collection Manual Page|publisher=Debian}}
|title=NSA: les Américains étaient-ils à l'origine de l'espionnage de l'Elysée en 2012?|date=20 November 2012 |publisher=L'Express|lang=fr}}
{{Cite web | url=https://nmap.org/misc/hakin9-nmap-ebook-ch1.pdf
|title=Nmap: The Internet Considered Harmful - DARPA Inference Cheking Kludge Scanning|publisher=Hakin9}}
|title=Researcher Creates Proof-of-concept Malware That Infects BIOS, Network Cards|publisher=PC World}}
|title=NSA's hacking tool is apparently as easy to use as a Google search|date=2 July 2015 |publisher=Engadget}}
|title=Google Chrome WARNING - This terrifying new HACK leaves Windows PCs open to ATTACK too|date=18 May 2017 |publisher=Daily Express}}
|title=US fears back-door routes into the net because it's building them too|work=The Guardian|date=12 October 2013 |last1=Naughton |first1=John }}
|title=Shakacon IT Security Conference To Be Held In Hawaii In June|work=Dark Reading|date=8 May 2013}}
{{Cite news | url=http://2012.hackitoergosum.org/blog/contact/team
|title=Hackito Ergo Sum Team|work=Hackito Ergo Sum Conference|date=2012}}
{{Cite news | url=https://www.theregister.com/2011/02/01/alt_sec_conferences/
|title=Alternative security conferences plot European editions|work=The Register|date=1 February 2011|last1=Leyden |first1=John}}
{{Cite news | url=https://nullcon.net/review-panel/jonathan-brossard
|title=Nullcon Review Board : Profile of Jonathan Brossard|work=Nullcon Conference}}
|title=Sécurité Informatique : NoSuchCon|work=Le Monde Informatique|lang=fr}}
|title=Hacking: 'Tout ce que vous mettez sur Internet pourra être réutilisé à votre insu'|work=L'Express|lang=fr|date=22 November 2014 |last1=Karayan |first1=Raphaële}}
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External links
- {{official website|http://endrazine.com}}
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Category:Computer security specialists