While not production-ready malware, ‘Bootkitty’ provides a proof of concept for exploiting Linux systems at boot-up — widening the UEFI attack path beyond the Windows ecosystem. Bootkitty, a recently ...

Yeah that is exactly what he is going to do on the one he built for his office. I hope it does boot before 2038 specifically otherwise he's going to have to go back and rewrite all the time_t stuff ...

Since its inception, Microsoft has focused on Windows in attempt to cram it into every conceivable form factor. That's worked pretty well for computers, but not so much for phones. Now, Microsoft is ...

Researchers have spotted what they believe is the first ever malware capable of infecting the boot process of Linux systems. "Bootkitty" is proof-of-concept code that students in Korea developed for a ...

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