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#1 2009-08-06 00:42:48
BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3828&tag=nl.e550
A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit ...
...is a software agent that lives in the BIOS and periodically calls home to a central authority for instructions in case a laptop is stolen.
Because the rootkit is white-listed by anti-virus software, the malicious modifications will go unnoticed.
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