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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
mubix
Great article, I do believe there is a typo in the last sentence though. I am sorry that I missed out on what seems to be a great speech. Did the speaker give any references or materials where a concerned sys admin could read up on this? I am sure that there are plenty of sys admins that are extreme...

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