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'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:16:18 GMT
Via eWeek. [snip] Microsoft's twice-yearly BlueHat summit will kick off with a demo of a virtualization-based rootkit that can be used to defeat the company's PatchGuard technology. Microsoft's twice-yearly BlueHat hacker summit, running Oct. 26-27, will kick off later this week with a demo of a virtual machine rootkit that can potentially be used to defeat the controversial PatchGuard technology. Dino Dai Zovi, a principal at penetration-testing outfit Matasano Security, has been invited to Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus to showcase a hardware VM-based rootkit called Vitriol that piggybacks on Intel's VT-x virtualization extension. Zovi, an expert on exploitation techniques, 802.11 wireless attacks and operating system kernel security, will demo the rootkit at the conference, to which select members of the hacking community are invited to brainstorm security issues with Microsoft employees and executives. [snip] More: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2032661,00.asp - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Fergie (Oct 17)
- Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 17)
- Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Dude VanWinkle (Oct 17)
- Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Blue Boar (Oct 18)
- Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Dude VanWinkle (Oct 17)
- RE: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Larry Seltzer (Oct 17)
- Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Blue Boar (Oct 18)
- Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Dude VanWinkle (Oct 18)
- Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Blue Boar (Oct 18)
- Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Dude VanWinkle (Oct 18)
- RE: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Larry Seltzer (Oct 17)
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- RE: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit Larry Seltzer (Oct 17)