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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: I believe I have a way to defeat it...I hope!! 2007-06-11
blu
We got hit by something vicious late nov 2006. I am no expert but was led thru books, including a new one on 'bios level RT'. This thing spread from xp, hoped on Linux, macos even faster. Actually I found a big clue in the boot file off the mac. Not to go into detail, but I started considering it. T...

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