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Thread: Making it harder for rootkits

Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Evil_Bert
Boffins have figured out a way to defeat many rootkits: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11...it_protecti on/
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pete_1967 replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Let's hope that technology will be available soon.

aleph replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Hypervisor based --> much, much slower on old hardware without VT support ;(

Evil_Bert replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Well they say it's for Guest OS's (at the moment), so I suppose their aim is server security ... were servers are expected to increasingly be run virtualised on suitable hardware. I'm hoping the technique will flow down to memory management in regular Linux boxes at some point.

diamond_ramsey replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Evil_Bert, thank you for your posts! Quote: Originally Posted by Evil_Bert ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11...it_protecti on/ "... They tested the protected system against nine rootkits written for the Linux 2.6 kernel. Seven of them failed to install at all thanks to the memory protection, ...

Dies replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Quote: Originally Posted by diamond_ramsey From research good things will come in time. From experience, interested parties will work around it.

 

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Evil_Bert
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Making it harder for rootkits
Published (2009-11-11 18:09:00)
Well they say it's for Guest OS's (at the moment), so I suppose their aim is server security ... were servers are expected to increasingly be run virtualised on suitable hardware. I'm hoping the technique will flow down to memory management in regular Linux boxes at some point.
pete_1967
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Making it harder for rootkits
Published (2009-11-11 01:50:00)
Let's hope that technology will be available soon.
aleph
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Making it harder for rootkits
Published (2009-11-11 07:22:00)
Hypervisor based --> much, much slower on old hardware without VT support ;(
diamond_ramsey
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Making it harder for rootkits
Published (2009-11-11 18:22:00)
Evil_Bert, thank you for your posts! Quote: Originally Posted by Evil_Bert ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11...it_protection/ "... They tested the protected system against nine rootkits written for the Linux 2.6 kernel. Seven of them failed to install at all thanks to the memory protection, while the remaining two failed to hide themselves because of the hook indirection. ..." Most excellent!!! From research good...
Dies
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Making it harder for rootkits
Published (2009-11-11 21:22:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by diamond_ramsey From research good things will come in time. From experience, interested parties will work around it.

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