eWeek: Government-Funded Startup Blasts Rootkits

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I guess you have all seen this already?

Via eWeek.

[snip]

A startup funded by the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ready to emerge from stealth 
mode with hardware- and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of malicious rootkits.

Komoku, of College Park, Md., plans to ship a beta of Gamma, a new rootkit detection tool that builds on a prototype 
used by several sensitive U.S. government departments to find operating system abnormalities that may be linked to 
malicious rootkit activity.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1951941,00.asp

Komoku:
http://www.komoku.com/

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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