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Windows Vista Succumbs to Blue Pill
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Microsoft spent a whole day at the Black Hat conference last week extolling the security 
enhancements in its upcoming Vista operating system. Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher with security firm Coseinc, spent a day picking it apart. Then again, what else would you expect from a session at a hacker convention titled: "Subverting Vista Kernel For Fun And Profit"?
Rutkowska took the stage in front of a capacity audience and proceeded to explain how to get around Vista.
She demonstrated two potential attack vectors. One could allow unsigned code to be loaded into the Vista kernel. The second vector involved taking advantage of AMD’s Pacific Hardware Virtualization to inject a new form of super malware that Rutkowska claimed to be undetectable. Windows Vista Succumbs to Blue Pill
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