, 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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" ... hacked windows files stored in the hidden drive areas marked as bad sectors or obscured through geometry changes. Any reinstall would start normally from the cd, but you would observe at some point foreign (unsual) files and drivers begin to...
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