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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 8. Hardware Manipulation

 

Throughout your life, advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

 
 --HAGAKURE

A scenario:

The intruder slips along the wall toward a janitor cart resting at the end of the hall. His eyes are on a set of keys. A quick look around the corner; good, the janitor is down the hall cleaning a doctor’s office. The intruder gently lifts the key chain and dashes back into the dark hallway. Around a corner, stopping at a door, he tries the lock. This doesn’t take long. Once the door is open, he sneaks back to the cart and replaces the keys.

The office is dark except for a computer terminal in the back. After moving the monitor and keyboard to the floor, he sits in the ...

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