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Researchers: 'Blue Pill' Rootkit Detectable

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:32:14 +0100

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Joanna Rutkowska, the security researcher who one year ago built a working prototype, code-named Blue Pill, of a rootkit capable of creating malware that remains "100 percent undetectable," has tacitly conceded to a group of... Read more...

Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS

malebolgia — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:03:18 +0000

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Insider attacks and industrial espionage could become more stealthy by hiding malicious code in the core system functions available in a motherboard's flash memory, researchers said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference. ... Read more...

Sun researchers: Computers do bad math

malebolgia — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 04:18:24 +0000

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On Feb. 25, 1991, during the first Gulf War, a Scud missile hit U.S. Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 U.S. soldiers. The barracks was defended by a Patriot missile defense system, which... Read more...