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New Rootkits Resist Disk Cleansing
By Marc Handelman
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The researchers, from Core Security Technologies, used the techniques to inject rootkits into two computers, one running the OpenBSD operating system and the other Windows. Because the infection lives in the computer’s BIOS, or basic input/output system, it persists even after the operating system is reinstalled or a computer’s hard drive is replaced.
Source: InfoSecurity.com
