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Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor

BeeBright/Getty Images reader comments 94 with Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious trick in the toolkit of stealthy hackers. But when a motherboard manufacturer installs its own hidden backdoor in the firmware of millions of computers—and… Read More »