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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 2006-02-06
Anonymous
who garantues that there arent already spy bits in existing bioses by vendors?

If sony distributes rootkits on audio cds how can a consumer be sure that buying pc hardware or consoles with inet access (like xbox crap e.g.) dont abuse their closed source bios to do malicious stuff?

Theres as much t...

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