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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
Gimping 8600
If Vendors could write usable ACPI code, I'd be worried. But, most of them can't. So I'm not

Hey Mr Root-Kit writer! Could you add an extention that makes the power/performance/charge model actually work on my laptop, and also so it doesn't blow-out the battery charger and monitoring circuits ...

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