'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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.

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More:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2032661,00.asp

- ferg


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