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Certainly worrying but something on this scale and impacting I would of thought that more sources of this would be scropping up. But may bea early days. Certa
by Zenst 13y ago
Certainly worrying but something on this scale and impacting I would of thought that more sources of this would be scropping up. But may bea early days.
Certainly the aspect of rewritting the controller code on flash drives of all available types would be a very news worthy issue in itself beyond this being used as a vector to rewrite the system BIOS. Which would be a way of doing it, given how many manufacters that have windows based BIOS update programs that have caused people fun and games in the past. This avoids the whole windows/AV and indeed any protection the system BIOS has beyond a checksum that would also appear to be easily bypassed.
Still the whole area that I wonder is when flaws in network card chipsets are found and then the potentual to rewrite the code/BIOS upon those NIC's. That would be an area which a failing CD-ROM drive would not show up.
Now waiting for somebody to invent a USB product condom, as in you plug it your unknown USB device into it and it checks that it is not going to infect your computer and puts on a green or red light accordingly showing it is safe to insert into your computer.
Hope some more details come too light, just seems too big a deal to be this low scale on the news front.