Rootkits and Bootkits

INTRODUCTION

We came up with the idea for this book when, having published a series of articles and blog posts about rootkits and bootkits, we realized the topic wasn’t getting nearly as much attention as it deserved. We felt there was a bigger picture, and we wanted a book that tried to

make sense of it all—one that generalized the medley of nifty tricks, operating system architectural observations, and design patterns used by attacker and defender innovations. We looked for such a book and found none, so we set out to write the one we wanted to read.

It took us four and a half years, longer than we planned and, regrettably, much longer than ...