Attack on Intell CPU may harm XP. Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 4:09 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by geek9pm (286 messages posted) A new kind of root kit could be coming your way if you use an Intel based XP system. Just when you wee thinking it is safe to get in the water again! ... The attack allows for privilege escalation from Ring 0 to the SMM on many recent motherboards with Intel CPUs. Interestingly, the very same attack will be presented by another researcher, Loic Duflot, at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, on... Thursday 19th, 1600 UTC. BTW, this is a different SMM-targeting attack than the one we mentioned during our recent TXT talk and that is scheduled to be presented later ... Source: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/ Geek9pm There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Attack on Intell CPU may harm XP. (geek9pm: Wed, Mar 18, 2009, 4:09 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum