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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,done in 99 2006-01-29
Anonymous
Bios bootstrap code was operating on certain mainboards ..GB.. in around 99/2000 .

This bios code would insert a desktop icon,reg keys etc,win startup,and bookmark link in IE that would be operational on a fresh install.

Surprised .?...

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