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Black Hat webcast – Dino Dai Zovi on Advanced Mac OS X Rootkits

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The Mac OS X kernel (xnu) is a hybrid BSD and Mach kernel. While Unix-oriented rootkit techniques are pretty well known, Mach-based rootkit techniques have not been as thoroughly publicly explored. This presentation will cover a variety of rootkit techniques for both user-space and kernel-space rootkits using unique and poorly understood or documented Mac OS X and Mach features.

Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm PT/4:00 pm ET
Duration: 60 minutes (plus Q&A)

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Developing Mac OSX kernel rootkits

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Phrack #66 was released today with some always interesting articles - Developing Mac OS X kernel rootkits by wowie & ghalen