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SMM Rootkits: A New Breed of OS Independent Malware

The emergence of hardware virtualization technology has led to the development of OS independent malware such as the Virtual Machine Based Rootkits VMBRs. This paper draws attention to a different but related threat that exists on many commodity systems in operation today: The System Management Mode Based Rootkit SMBR. System...

Tags: Operating System, Malware, Association For Computing Machinery, System Management Mode, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Rootkits, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Operating Systems, Security, Hardware, Storage, Software

White papers 2008-09-25

Cleaning ship hulls with a robot

This is the goal of a EU-funded project called HISMAR Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics. European researchers and engineers are working on an automated robotic cleaning system that removes marine growth from the hull of a ship. By cleaning a ship's hull, this robot will allow ships to...

Tags: Vessel, Ship, HISMAR, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Novel Intrusion Prevention and Detection Methods

Analysis of contemporary Information Security Systems ISS and especially the case of Intrusion Detection Systems IDS shows one few character negative features and drawbacks. Original methods and combined anomaly and signature IDS applications are presented in the paper. Human-centered methods INCONSISTENCY, FUNNEL, CALEIDOSCOPE and CROSSWORD interact on a competitive principle...

Tags: Method, Intrusion Detection System, Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Business Intelligence, Intrusion Prevention, Marketing Research, Network Security, Security, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Networking

White papers 2008-09-08

Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw

Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...

Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-27