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    ESET Discovers the first-ever UEFI rootkit cyberattack

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Dec 27, 2018.

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    Thank for notifying me. I fixed the link and repped j00.
     
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    I always believed UEFI was designed to lockout user from it's computer , more than anything else. And I remember old BIOS had 100% foolproof security feature on my ancient desktop: except for small area for user data/settings, you could not flash, write to, or change BIOS until you manually short 2 pins to enable higher voltage necessary for writing operations. So unless the BIOS you were trying to flash was infected, there was no possible way to infect it without physical access to the computer. With UEFI it's just a matter of effort to find it's security holes and I'm sure there is more than one.
     
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