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- Blue Pill Project extends VM rootkit cat-and-mouse tussle
- Blue Pill Project extends VM rootkit cat-and-mouse tussleMS ?"systems based on a microkernel architecture"please explain how the pill works.Root Kits and virues.The accountability issue is not about why a person wastes their time building a bad reputation to get attention, as the peer support saying "that's great!" isn't there if...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-05
- Blue Pill Project extends VM rootkit cat-and-mouse tussle
- LAS VEGAS - The intellectual cat-and-mouse tussle over hiding and finding virtual machine rootkits has hit a new gear with a team of researchers dismissing the notion of "100 percent undetectable" malware and the release of source code for a new "Blue Pill" rootkit.As previously reported, Thomas Ptacek, co-founder of...
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Let users virtualize Vista because hypervisor rootkits are no threat
- Let users virtualize Vista because hypervisor rootkits are no threatGreat article Thomas, but I have a question[i]"...there’s much more to the X86 platform than meets the eye. That includes chipset features, obscure timing sources, and even hardware bugs, or “errata”, that sneak into the finished version of any chip. To...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- Let users virtualize Vista because hypervisor rootkits are no threat
- Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Thomas Ptacek Several weeks ago, reports surfaced that the threat of super-sophisticated "hypervisor malware" was preventing Microsoft from allowing their Windows Vista Home Edition operating system from running within virtualization software. Now, Microsoft may have a lot of good reasons for restricting...
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Blue Pill hacker challenge update: It's a no-go
- A quick update to the challenge handed down to hacker Joanna Rutkowska to prove that her Blue Pill technology creates "100% undetectable malware."Rutkowska says she is "ready to accept" the challenge but wants her two-person team to be paid $384,000 ($200 a day each for two people working full-time for...
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Rutkowska faces '100ò0undetectable malware' challenge
- Rutkowska faces '100ò0undetectable malware' challengeOh what would I do...She is given a choice between two identical laptops. After reading some of her research, the best way to tell would be to check the latency of the laptops and see which one lags more. I think that if anyone...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Rutkowska faces '100% undetectable malware' challenge
- At last year's Black Hat security conference, stealth malware researcher Joanna Rutkowska caused a stir with the introduction of Blue Pill, a new technology she claims can create malware that remains "100 percent undetectable."This year, a group of her peers will challenge Rutkowska to prove it, arguing that a...
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Detecting the Blue Pill Hypervisor rootkit is possible but not trivial
- Detecting the Blue Pill Hypervisor rootkit is possible but not trivialOutside the BoxPerhaps I'm missing something, but it seems this argument is somewhat self-limiting. While a software detection mechanism runs on a subjugated OS, it may well be very difficult for that mechanism to detect Blue Pill. If,...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
- Detecting the Blue Pill Hypervisor rootkit is possible but not trivial
- There has been much skepticism over the claim that Blue Pill the first effective Hypervisor rootkit is 100% undetectable and I myself was very skeptical of Blue Pill when I first read about it. I had an extensive email conversation with Joanna Rutkowska (of Singapore-based COSEINC) weeks before her...
- Blog posts 2006-08-17
- Blue Pill: No hoax
- By now you've probably heard of security researcher Joanna Rutkowska's "Blue Pill" concept -- a way take advantage of hardware virtualization features of AMD and Intel processors to surreptitiously log keystrokes or do whatever else an attacker might want. This technique was demonstrated in front of a live audience at...
- Blog posts 2006-08-16
- Blue Pill: The first effective Hypervisor Rootkit
- Blue Pill: The first effective Hypervisor RootkitWow...w00t!I think this has been debunkedhttp://tocm.blogspot.com/2006/07/spend-more-time-reading-less-time.html#commentsArthasVery Nice IndeedRight now, I would assume the only way to detect whether or not a blue pill was installed was to run a network traffic monitor at the gateway and look for any abnormal traffic going to unknown...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-15
- Blue Pill: The first effective Hypervisor Rootkit
- Blue Pill can do an on-the-fly install and simply shift your Operating System from direct control of the physical computer to a virtualized state I had a chance to sit down with Polish security researcher Joanna Rutkowska of Singapore-based COSEINC after Black Hat 2006 last week and we discussed her...
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- Hackers at Black Hat rise to Microsoft's challenge to break Vista's security (and succeed)
- Looks like Microsoft has more work to do on Vista's security. According to InfoWorld:After security researcher Joanna Rutkowska demonstrated Thursday how it's possible to circumvent security in Microsoft's Vista beta software and install a rootkit called Blue Pill, Microsoft said it intends to find ways to stop both potential threats...
- Blog posts 2006-08-04
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- The problem with health care is costs and you
- I think my head is going to explode.Is anyone else confused and frustrated about this topic??? Some people are crying "Social Medicine Go Away but don't touch Medicare or Medicaid" Some people are saying "Capitalism should dominate Health care" Other people are blaming the patients for being sick. Other people...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- McKinsley blames technology for our health care woes
- McKinsley blames technology for our health care woesGive us old folks the little blue pillNo, not Viagra.Samuelson is obviously one of the more affluent of us as we move toward old age. Quite happy to increase costs of medical care and reduce expensive services for those on Medicare. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-12
- MWSF09 Best in Show: TechRestore matte finish MacBook screen
- MWSF09 Best in Show: TechRestore matte finish MacBook screenWhy does your picture...the anti-glare screen cutting down the brightness, but the picture on their website shows the opposite?Physics tells us that only one of these is correct. Refraction and diffusion causes light loss.RE: MWSF09 Best in Show: TechRestore matte finish...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-10
- The 'Social Media' Conundrum
- I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!
- Not to beat a dead horse, that's already been beaten to death time and time again, but... Update 05/12/08: Russ McRee has actually just posted a story about "Why PCI DSS is Doomed". Came across this page on McAfee's site about their "McAfee Secure", "McAfee...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Our big carbon footprints
- A class of MIT students in mechanical engineering has studied the carbon footprints of different lifestyles, from the homeless to multimillionaires. And the results are both fascinating and frightening. According to the study, even the people with the lowest incomes in the U.S. emit twice more carbon than the average...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- PCI Compliance gets clarified and neutered (further)
- PCI Compliance gets clarified and neutered furtherStraw man argumentI think you are missing something, namely the first part of the section that you just quoted: [i]Having all custom application code reviewed for common vulnerabilities by an organization that specializes in application security[/i]I'll be the first to acknowledge that I know...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
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