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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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Re: Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS - Jumper fo rflashing? 2006-01-27
thejynxed
I know at least on my home systems, whenever I flash the BIOS, it asks for the BIOS administrator password. Installing a rootkit into BIOS would in alot of cases require the rootkit writer to not only know what operating system, the specific hardware in the system, etc. they have to write the kit fo...

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