Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS

Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-26

ARLINGTON, Virginia -- Insider attacks and industrial espionage could become more stealthy by hiding malicious code in the core system functions available in a motherboard's flash memory, researchers said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference.

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Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS 2006-01-26
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Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS 2006-01-26
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Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS 2006-01-27
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Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS - Jumper fo rflashing? 2006-01-27
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It wouldn't be that easy!!! 2006-01-27
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Quibble - rootkit for OS X 2006-01-27
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Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS 2006-01-27
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Not actually 2006-01-27
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Re: Not actually 2006-06-24
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Re: Re: Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS 2006-01-31
Anonymous

Oh it wouldn't flash without entering the password, but it wouldn't boot without entering the password either. It wasn't a password set on the disk, just plain old bios password. So the laptop would boot to the password entry screen for the bios no matter what the circumstances (boot from floppy, cd rom, etc).

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