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Cyber Security Essentials
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Cyber Security Essentials

by James Graham, Ryan Olson, Rick Howard
April 2016
Beginner
342 pages
9h 51m
English
Auerbach Publications
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240 Cyber seCurity essentiAls
One solution to this problem for a VMM is to move the guest OS’
GDT and LDT to a different location than would normally be used.
is prevents the host machine’s operating system’s GDT and LDT
tables from being overwritten by the guest OS. Since most operating
systems expect to be the only operating system present on a computer
at one time, operating systems have a very specific location for their
GDT and LDT tables. When the VMM moves the guest OS’ GDT
and LDT to a new memory location, an inconsistency between the
VME and a real machine exists. From this inconsistency, applications
can determine the presence of a VME. e Scooby Doo package can
reliably determine the presence of a VME using this method.
e x86 arch ...
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