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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: I believe I have a way to defeat it...The problem is will you believe me! 2006-04-26
Anonymous
OK. this is either awesome or a sales scam. I would hope that one who claims to be able to "save the world" from rootkits would be altruistic enough to share the info without trying to capitalize on it. I suspect its BS because its out of character if a tech, Looks salesy to me.,...

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