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Serious, Stealthy, Deadly BIOS Attack
By George Hulme
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Excerpt: After covering IT security for well more than a decade, few new attacks scare the freckles off of my back. This persistent BIOS attack, as demonstrated by Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies is one of these new attack techniques.
One of the scariest malware trends in recent years has been the rise in attention toward rootkits. However, it hasn't been easy developing rootkits that can go undetected. Yet, as they detailed at last week's CanSecWest security conference, it's possible to infect the low-level system instructions of a PC BIOS (basic input/output system) and be undetectable.
Source: InformationWeek
