DARPA Funded Startup to 'Bird-Dog' Rootkits 124
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."
Re:Hardware can't be fooled like the operating sys (Score:5, Funny)
emerge? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
A lot of good it will do... (was:Notification) (Score:4, Funny)
Re:emerge? (Score:1, Funny)
l337 haxx0r hates n00bz!!!
P.S. The next time you post attach 'emerge --info'.
Re:Government Rootkit (Score:3, Funny)
Then, I started pondering... "Hmmm... if Slashdot itself is a government DARPA project....to weed out targettable, unloyal, unsavor engineers and geeks..."
Windows... (Score:4, Funny)
Windows: It's so insecure, not even DARPA can stop it.
(it's funny... laugh)