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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 2006-01-27
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'While Hoglund believed that most computers would not have protections against writing to flash memory turned on by default, NGSSoftware's Heasman disagreed.

"The obstacles to deployment are numerous," Heasman said. "Almost all machines have a physical protection, such as a jumper on the motherbo...

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