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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It wouldn't be that easy!!! 2006-01-27
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I believe I have a way to defeat it...The problem is will you believe me! 2006-04-04
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Re: I believe I have a way to defeat it...I hope!! 2007-06-11
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We got hit by something vicious late nov 2006. I am no expert but was led thru books, including a new one on 'bios level RT'. This thing spread from xp, hoped on Linux, macos even faster. Actually I found a big clue in the boot file off the mac. Not to go into detail, but I started considering it. The bios on my xp Toshiba is messed up too. Got the upgrade, but my reading on pc boards, so many hardware chips 'bios/memory' related-tis hard to know where to start. Cant be sure we have a bios RT, but we have smacked our drives many times,replaced with new ones. My question was-since it keeps coming back-where is it hiding? So I do hope you know how to beat it!!

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