Scientists Propose Guaranteed Hypervisor Security

schliz writes "NCSU researchers are attempting to address today's 'blind trust' of virtualization with new security techniques that 'guarantee' malware does not infect hypervisors. Their HyperSafe software uses the write-protect bit on hypervisor hardware, as well as a technique called restricted pointer indexing, which characterizes the normal behavior of the system and prevents any deviation. A proof-of-concept prototype has been tested on BitVisor and Xen, in research that will be presented (PDF) at an IEEE conference today."

They should have my cousin test this

[NotSoHeavyD3]

Because if anybody could get a machine infected it'd be him.

Re:Dangerous

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone knows you have to nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. And you call yourself a geek.

Re:Dangerous

[Thanshin]

So what you mean is:

- Kill everyone
- Burn down all locations

Guys. I've got someone here who knows about protocol ICU2. There's been a leak. Apply procedure K111 to subject and all related to the sixth degree.