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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: Re: Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS 2006-11-13
Anonymous
I work for a research institute at a major university in the USA and can confirm the pervasive nature of this situation. I have seen symptoms of this malicious code at work on WinXP PCs, Macs, and linux PCs. We have a number of computational grids (clusters) and servers, but I do not administrate th...

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