Linux/ Windows users be aware, "BootKitty", UEFI bios bootkit vulnerability

[67Dart273]

This is touted as the first vulnerability of it's kind that successfully targets both Windows and Linux

It evidently enters and corrupts the motherboard BIOS

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[HankRearden]

Thanks for sharing. The tin foil hatter in e says this the result of Microsoft buying a membership in the Linux foundation.

But I'm just an admitted microshaft hater

 

[67Dart273]

I am as well, LOL, but who knows. Interestingly, and historically, most viruses / bugs have come from young kids just screwing around, pretty much