[vbox-dev] VirtualBox DMA Security?

2010-12-10 Thread Josh x90
Hello all, I have an interest in virtualisation security and I've been reading into the potential DMA access security issues in virtualisation. According to one presentation: (http://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/conferences/systor2010/present/2_2_3_presentation.pdf) "- Untrusted guest programs a

[vbox-dev] Interrupt Descriptor Tables and malware

2010-11-25 Thread Josh x90
Hello all, I'm interested in virtualisation security and during a conversation with someone yesterday, an issue came up which I hope you can resolve. I was told that there is malware which 'installs itself in the CPU interrupt vector table' - after a little research, I presume that by this he