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Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
by Ryan Naraine
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The biggest problem, Ortega explained, is that a malicious hacker can manipulate and control the call-home process. Thats because the technology uses a configuration method that contains the IP address, port and URL, all hard-coded in the Option-ROM. At first run, Sacco explained that the configuration method is copied in many places, including the registry and hard-disk inter-partition space.
Source: ZDNet
