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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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It wouldn't be that easy!!! 2006-01-27
janice
Sure , I see that everyone is crying out for motherboard jumpers now...It's not that easy though , what do you think that writing the code it's all.Placing it on the BIOS memory would be , let's say also easy , but what then.It could read some arbitrary memory pools and dump them where , how would i...

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