Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipe

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According to this Dennis Fisher report:

“It was very easy. We can put the code wherever we want,” said Ortega. “We’re not using a vulnerability in any way. I’m not sure if you understand the impact of this. We can reinfect the BIOS every time it reboots.”

Sacco and Ortega stressed that in order to execute the attacks, you need either root privileges or physical access to the machine in question, which limits the scope. But the methods are deadly effective and the pair are currently working on a BIOS rootkit to implement the attack.

“We can patch a driver to drop a fully working rootkit. We even have a little code that can remove or disable anti-virus,” Ortega said.

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LOL Well that sure would be a hard one to get rid off

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gonna be fun one to fix that 4 sure !
motherboard makers might leak it ..increase there sales for sure !