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Offline Dwarden

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Hardware virtualization based threats
« on: July 10, 2006, 04:15:19 PM »
New type of threats on horizont ... this time utilizing AMD hardware integrated virtualizations technology ...

For starter read e.g. http://seclists.org/lists/isn/2006/Jun/0137.html

and there are tons others articles on this theme ... also rumours about similar "tries" for Intel like tech

any word from Alwil staff if they keep eye on it and preparing defense  :)

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Re: Hardware virtualization based threats
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2006, 04:30:13 PM »
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Re: Hardware virtualization based threats
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2006, 05:08:07 PM »
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