Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Vitriol rootkit at hacker summit

Microsoft's twice-yearly BlueHat hacker summit, running Oct. 19-20, will kick off later this week with <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2032661,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL101806EOAD">a demo of a virtual machine rootkit</A> 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 campus to showcase a hardware VM-based rootkit called Vitriol that piggybacks on Intel's VT-x virtualization extension.

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