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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 2006-02-07
Samuel Stetler
Lets start with the problems in this article.

First it is true that most main boards that are deployed now do not need a jumper to be moved to allow the BIOS to be flashed. So flashing the BIOS would not be incredibly hard to do. Of course you would have to deal with the fact that there are a nu...

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