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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 2006-11-19
hylas
You are not going crazy, it's real.

I concur with 99% of what you have written, it's the same thing, (I have Macs, System 7 - OS X 10.4.x)

See my previous post above - I'm coming late to this thread.

This has been around a long time, I first found it (fought it in '97).

Most recently '05, I'm su...

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