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Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel
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Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel

by Greg Hoglund, James Butler
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
7h 18m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 3. The Hardware Connection

 

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

 
 --THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING,J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Software and hardware go together. Without software, hardware would be lifeless silicon. Without hardware, software cannot exist. Software ultimately controls a computer, but under the hood, it’s the hardware that implements the software code.

Furthermore, hardware is the ultimate enforcer of software security. Without hardware support, software would be totally insecure. Many texts cover software development without ever addressing the underlying hardware. This might work for the developers of enterprise applications, but it won’t work for rootkit developers. ...

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