Andrea Allievi

Hello there! As usually, long time not updating the blog (8 months )… good news is that this week I am on vacation, so I have a little more free time. There are two non-AI related technologies that me and my team created in the year 2025 that I wanted to

(sometimes you need to learn something new and adapt) Hello everyone!Today I want to deviate a little from the classical "low-level engineering" post (another one will arrive soon ) and describe a project by which I started to work more than one year ago.

As usual, it is long time that I do not update my blog… my bad, I am always kind of bad in finding free time between projects and personal life (I am almost finishing an amazing Kvm to allow me to remote control any machine from the UEFI BIOS, but this is

A lot of people nowadays ask me how, as part of my job, I debug UEFI firmware images, initial boot code and boot transitions. This happened in particular actual after the release of the excellent analysis by ESET of a new powerful UEFI bootkits, BlackLotu

Hello all! Finding a space between work and personal life is pretty hard nowadays… This post is just to let you all know that the bid for the special "signed" edition of the "Windows Internals - 7th Edition Part 2" book is online and has been published at

3rd January 2022 Since I returned back home in Italy, aside for dealing with the crazy Covid situation, I had some time off to read some documents and deepen some concepts that were in my personal list since some time ago… Indeed, multiple side projects h

Hello there!It has been a very long time since I last updated this blog (at least 3 years or more). Since my last post a lot of things have happened, which I summarize here: On January 2018 I moved to Seattle (WA), from Italy, with the idea to work in the

Hello folks! Long time no updating my blog. The work, book, and a minimum of social life are killing my free time So, here we go… … on last 17th June 2018 I gave a talk at the BSides Conference in my own city, Milano. It was really nice to return back hom

Hi All! It has been a long time since I have not updated this blog. As usual a lot of things are going on, and the free time is always very tight Today I just want to share with my readers the results of my reverse engineering work that I did on HyperV an

In this week I have flew home, after spending few weeks in Seattle for the Blue Hat and some meeting with the team (and even for some fun in the night, I admit ). For whoever doesn't know, starting from the September 2016 I am a Security Researcher of the