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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 2006-07-28
ABG
This information is remarkable to me. I don't understand why there is even a debate about bios rootkits, if this information is correct. I am researching this because I am having symptoms like the aforementioned, also passed on a linksys network. I also think that a linux virtual machine is the c...

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