Rootkit Could Hide In PCI Cards

Reverse Gear writes "SecurityFocus has an interesting article about a paper published on the possibility of hiding a rootkit in different PCI cards and having the rootkit survive a reboot or cleansing of the hard disk. It seems though that the author of the article doesn't think this would be abused frequently. From the article and paper: '(Because) enough people do not regularly apply security patches to Windows and do not run anti-virus software, there is little immediate need for malware authors to turn to these techniques as a means of deeper compromise.'"

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Re:Computers are at their hearts....

[Threni]

Whenever someone goes on about `trust` and computers, show them this:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

(Some people attempt to continue babbling, talking of new detection techniques, and expensive hardware, but you'll have done your bit.)