Intel Researchers Find Hardware Fight Rootkits and Malware
Could the first line of data security be in hardware? Intel researchers have developed a way to detect rootkits and other malware. Although still in the research stage, it could be added to future Intel hardware platforms. Seems that the key is in the memory after all!
By watching a computer’s main memory, the System Integrity Services can detect when an attacker takes control of the system?such attacks sever the ties between data loaded into memory by an application and the application itself?and can fool a system so as to avoid detection while potentially allowing for surreptitious pilfering of data or the perpetration of other attacks. “Our threat model assumes that the attacker gets on the system somehow and has unrestricted access to the system,” said Travis Schluessler, a security architect inside Intel’s Communications Technology Lab.
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