, 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.
Anonymous
What's so special about ACPI? It sounds like the basic issue is flashable BIOSes, not ACPI tables.
What's to stop a sophisticated attacker from simply writing x86 code - especially SMM code - that doesn't depend on being invoked by an ACPI interpreter?
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