News Researcher develops NIC rootkit

Who needs a rootkit when Uncle Sam can log into any server at any time and watch what your doing. The government has been doing far more advanced stuff like this for years. Just remember the United States has remote controlled robots on Mars and satellites exploring deep space, your PC is child play to them.

As far as a virus, well this is just an excuse to sell more Anti-Virus licenses as the new scare will be Virus protection for discrete graphics, sound, and other PCi-E cards.

 

Seems like pretty much everything with firmware can be updated these days, and therefore would potentially be vulnerable.

Maybe some hacker will come up with a way to re-flash BIOSes that is actually reliable!

 

If your uncle sam or our own big brother types wants to watch what I'm doing I really don't mind, but some opportunistic criminal dude wanting to nick my banking logon details has just had some good research done for him. Rather less impressed about that.