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Rootkits Head for Your BIOS

Posted by Zonk on from the get-me-off-of-the-internet-please dept.

Artem Tashkinov wrote to mention a SecurityFocus article which discusses a disturbing new threat to computer security: Rootkits that target a computer's BIOS. From the article: "One rootkit expert at the conference predicted that the technology will become a fundamental part of rootkits in the near future. 'It is going to be about one month before malware comes out to take advantage of this,' said Greg Hoglund, a rootkit expert and CEO of reverse engineering firm HBGary. 'This is so easy to do. You have widely available tools, free compilers for the ACPI language, and high-level languages to write the code in.'" Update: 01/27 14:28 GMT by Z : John Heasman wrote with a link to the slide presentation on this topic given at the Black Hat Conference (pdf).

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  1. IGNORE COMMENT: OT by Khyber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Got a question about your sig. You say it's not a MacBook Pro? Then why does Apple call it that?

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