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+-   New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware on Monday May 19 2008, @04:25PM yahoi

Submitted by yahoi on Monday May 19 2008, @04:25PM
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yahoi writes "A new type of denial-of-service attack, called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS), damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. A researcher has discovered how to abuse firmware update mechanisms with what he calls 'phlashing' — a type of remote PDOS attack.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=154270&WT.svl=news1_1"
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