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'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit

Ryan Naraine writes on eWeek:

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.

posted by Fergie @ 10/17/2006 06:19:00 PM