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DARPA Funded Startup to 'Bird-Dog' Rootkits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tails-of-woe dept.

Ski_Bird writes "DARPA is funding a startup the supposedly has a unique approach to detect rootkits. The startup, Komoku, is ready to 'emerge from stealth mode with hardware and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of malicious rootkits.' They have a PCI card that doesn't necessarily determine that a rootkit is installed, only that the O/S has changed dramatically enough to warrant investigation. Microsoft, however, demonstrated a rootkit running in a virtual machine outside of the user's O/S workspace that made detection impossible."

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  1. Re:Hardware can't be fooled like the operating sys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm more interested in what Sony has to say about this development.

  2. emerge? by Hack+Jandy · · Score: 4, Funny

    emerge from stealth mode

    For some reason I can't get this to work. I read the man pages but it seems like emerge doesn't have a stealth mode? Let me know if I am missing something here before i go back to Ubuntu.