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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 2006-01-30
sk8r
I would really like to take a look at those machines since it sounds really interesting.I also had a problem flashing my passworded bios laptop and wouldn't flash without the password so I wonder how was that possible on your end.If you are willing to share, post a link or something on this comment ...

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