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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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Quibble - rootkit for OS X 2006-01-27
Anonymous
Following the links pointed back to a reference to the Opener startup script.

Opener isn't a rootkit. No kernel extensions are installed, no system diagnostic binaries are replaced. It's written in generously commented bash. It doesn't even put a '.' in front of the files it creates.

It is ...

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