Who do YOU think could pull this off...
Arcane low level proprietary calls to SEVERAL manufacturers hard drives to rewrite firmware ?
Hmmmm.
Edit to add : http://threatpost.com/inside-nls_933w-dll-the-equation-apt-persistence-m...
Who do YOU think could pull this off...
Arcane low level proprietary calls to SEVERAL manufacturers hard drives to rewrite firmware ?
Hmmmm.
Edit to add : http://threatpost.com/inside-nls_933w-dll-the-equation-apt-persistence-m...
Common ground with Stuxnet and FLAME? I think the answer to "who" is pretty obvious.
Perhaps too obvious.
Maybe we should look at countries which are really good at reverse engineering before assigning blame.
Hmmmm.
http://bofh.nikhef.nl/events/OHM/video/d2-t1-13-20130801-2300-hard_disks...
1 hour long video on exactly this subject... Hacking firmware on a hard drive.
"Hiding Data in Hard-Drive’s Service Areas"
http://www.recover.co.il/SA-cover/SA-cover.pdf
54.1 KB.
Uh oh... .il = Israel.