The quest for ring zero…
August 18, 2007
Federico Biancuzzi sits down with French researcher Lo ïc Duflot and speaks about the System Management Mode attack, how to mitigate it, what hardware is vulnerable… A feature called System Management Mode, included in modern x86 cpus, opens the way to the land of kernel space and the quest for ring zero.
Source: Digg.com – Posted by: rsimpson
Link to Story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/12/smm_attack/
