[Discuss] Fwd: malware in bios?

2013-11-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
An interesting story from ISN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1 - http://lists.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn_lists.infosecnews.org http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/ Thoughts and insights welcome. I am not the author.

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: malware in bios?

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Pieri
I was reading this article back when Ars first posted it and I figured the obvious: his media is infected. And then I get to the epiphany: immediately infected as soon as he plugged one of his USB drives into it. He soon theorized that infected computers have the ability to contaminate USB