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Rootkit Could Hide In PCI Cards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-under-the-bed dept.

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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  1. i woulda posted first ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...but i took the time to read the article b4 posting d00dz