Intel turning to hardware for rootkit detection

[Ken at krvw.com (Kenneth R. van Wyk)]

FYI, eWeek has an interesting article on Intel's "System Integrity Services," 
which aims to add hardware level protection against rootkits.  Now, it seems 
to me that they're bundling all sorts of nasty critters in with their 
definition of "rootkit" but it's worth reading, IMHO.  

The detection mechanism seems to primarily be looking primarily for non-OS 
software modifying OS inhabited memory blocks.  Wonder how they're definining 
(and maintaining the definition) of each...  I also wonder how it'll impact 
near-OS software installations like, say, device drivers, authentication 
plug-ins, and other things that need to poke pretty deeply into the OS in 
order to install.

Anyway, here's a URL to the article.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1900533,00.asp

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
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