"(Because) enough people do not regularly apply security patches to Windows and do not run anti-virus software, there is little immediate need for malware authors to turn to these techniques as a means of deeper compromise"...

Yeah, right. This was said barely a couple of years ago about Windows ...

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Ever OS and sofwares houses talk about security, but rarely you can hear hardware vendors talking about the same.

IMHO, they think that don't need to care about this, just waiting for the first (? who remeber those virus that destroy BIOS ) hardware-virus.

Like Linux (and Vista from now) mus...

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I think that's pretty cool. I've been expecting this to happen for a while seeing how there are many 'blackbox' kinds of devices made for PC's already. This research shows a bridge between full hardware malware and software driven only malware....

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Even in a "trusted computing" environment, you are still vulnerable unless you control everything from "trusted foundries" of all components flowing through everything. By concentrating the attack vectors for nearly everything to a limited set of chip and component foundries, the risk of a single b...

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Turns out that they already exist and guess who's doing it? Who's watching the guards? So let's start talking about how to detect and remove them....

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