Yet, an insider attacker could flash their laptop before they leave a company and then use the rootkit, which would survive reinstallation of the operating system. The insider could then gain access to the corporate network at a later time.
And then they say in the paragraph after
Because the amount of memory that could be used by an attacker in the BIOS firmware is small, it is unlikely that an entire rootkit will be stored in the motherboard's memory. Instead, only specific functions and bootstrap code would likely be hidden there.
So... how will the virus survive after a format? It bootstraps code on the hard drive.. which... just got formatted... excellent plan!
only can pass with a signature of the President and a signature of a random person with a 3rd grade education who agrees that even they understand the law?
1. American firm sleeping with Bush patents 25 hour clock. 2. US changes to new 25 hour time system. 3. Spineless canadians change to 25 hour time system. 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Do *not* buy an Avocent Switchview.
I have one at work. I bought it because it's sleek looking, 4 ports, etc etc. Great! So I had a purchase order done up.
I want to kill the thing.
The hotkey to switch is CTRL twice in a row.
Guess what CTRL-C then CTRL-V does? Makes my system "freeze" for 3 seconds while the KVM waits for me to push a number key. And you can't disable this feature:(
Make sure your KVM can have this "feature" disabled. Or some use different keys, such as scroll lock.
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of those?
Okay, so first they say
Yet, an insider attacker could flash their laptop before they leave a company and then use the rootkit, which would survive reinstallation of the operating system. The insider could then gain access to the corporate network at a later time.
And then they say in the paragraph after
Because the amount of memory that could be used by an attacker in the BIOS firmware is small, it is unlikely that an entire rootkit will be stored in the motherboard's memory. Instead, only specific functions and bootstrap code would likely be hidden there.
So... how will the virus survive after a format? It bootstraps code on the hard drive.. which... just got formatted... excellent plan!
Plus, what's the virus gonna do, turn off my PC?
only can pass with a signature of the President and a signature of a random person with a 3rd grade education who agrees that even they understand the law?
What's the difference?
1. American firm sleeping with Bush patents 25 hour clock.
2. US changes to new 25 hour time system.
3. Spineless canadians change to 25 hour time system.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Do *not* buy an Avocent Switchview. I have one at work. I bought it because it's sleek looking, 4 ports, etc etc. Great! So I had a purchase order done up. I want to kill the thing. The hotkey to switch is CTRL twice in a row. Guess what CTRL-C then CTRL-V does? Makes my system "freeze" for 3 seconds while the KVM waits for me to push a number key. And you can't disable this feature :(
Make sure your KVM can have this "feature" disabled. Or some use different keys, such as scroll lock.