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When BIOS updates become malware attacks
By Sherri Davidoff
Excerpt:
In March at the CanSecWest security conference, held in Vancouver, researchers Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco of Core Security Technologies Inc. demonstrated a generic BIOS attack that can inject malicious code into many different BIOS types. An attacker that compromised the BIOS in this way would have full control of the underlying firmware, regardless of the operating system.
Source: SearchSecurity.com
