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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 2007-03-07
Anonymous
>GHOST WILL WRITE TO THE "WRITE PROTECTED" BOOT FLOPPY D...

Bullshit. Floppy drives are write protected via hardware connection through the tab on the floppy disk. No magic software can override that-it's internal to the DRIVE itself....

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