Hacker smackdown
Date: July 05, 2007Source: ITNews Australia
A showdown is brewing between two sets of security researchers over whether virtualisation-based rootkits are detectable in a system or not.
A showdown is brewing between two sets of security researchers over whether virtualization-based rootkits are detectable in a system or not. A trio of researchers has publicly challenged Joanna Rutkowska, who made a name for herself at last year's Black Hat USA conference for cracking the kernel in Microsoft's Windows Vista beta release and since has led groundbreaking research in stealth malware, to let them prove that they can indeed detect her homegrown stealth virtual machine code called Blue Pill.
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