Thursday, November 7, 2013

badBIOS (OR Attention whoring for fun and profit)

Recently, an article was published detailing a new kind of malware that targets various flavors of firmware (USB thumbdrives, CD-ROM drives, etc) for use as an infection vector.

READ HERE

Ok, there's lots of reasons this fails the stink test.

But this person sums it all up quite nicely.

Seriously, if you read anything about badBIOS and what a threat it is, just ignore it.