, 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.

Anonymous
"This is platform independent," Heasman said. "We can write a backdoor for **Windows** that will elevate privilege, and turn around and use the code on **Windows**."...
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