How the NSAs Firmware Hacking Works and Why Its So Unsettling
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One of the most shocking parts of the recently discovered spying network Equation Group is its mysterious module designed to reprogram or reflash a computer hard drives firmware with malicious code. The Kaspersky researchers who uncovered this said its ability to subvert hard drive firmwarethe guts of any computersurpasses anything else they had ever seen. [...]
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www.wired.com/2015/02/ns ··· hacking/