Invisible Things Posted on January 4, 2007 by Robin Reply Invisible things is the website of Joanna Rutkowska, who is very interested in stealth malware insertion into kernels. She came up with the ‘blue pill’, which is a stealth VM in the kernel running side by side with the normal kernel and is pretty much undetectable. A whole load of different attack vectors are explored in the site, as well as a taxonomy for stealth malware – a sector virtually ignored by the anti-virus community.
Hollywood OKs DRM solution Posted on January 4, 2007 by Robin Reply The Qflix system developed by Sonic Solutions Inc works by putting a content scrambling system lock on the burnt DVD. Each DVD player has a key to unencrypt the DVD. Or at least, they will have. Maybe. How you’re supposed to match your DVD player key to a DVD burnt in a kiosk is still a bit vague, but the studios have approved the technology. Wonder how long it will take for this to be broken?
Blue Origin Spaceflight is Hiring Posted on January 4, 2007 by Robin Reply Following the succesfull first flight of their vertical liftoff and landing vehicle, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is looking for more people to help them go to space. The site has video from the launch on it – good to see more and more successes in private spaceflight, even if it is in the form of baby steps.
