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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 2006-02-13
Black~Feather
Try this with norton ghost 2003 - boot from a floppy made from "machine A". Write protect the disk. Now go boot another machine with said floppy "Machine B". after running ghost, control c out of it, ghost will crash to floppy (command.com) and GHOST WILL WRITE TO THE "WRITE PROTECTED" BOOT FLOPPY D...

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