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Hacs: A hypervisor-based access control strategy to protect security-critical kernel data

Wang et al., 2017

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5260202337046240162
Author
Wang J
Zhao P
Ma H
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Publication venue
2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Technology (CST 2017). Guilin, China, DOI: https://doi. org/10.12783/dtcse/cst2017/12516

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Rootkits are prevalent in today's Internet. Using virtual machine monitor (VMM) is an attractive way to deal with rootkits. However, most of the previous studies do not focus on protecting kernel data using VMMs, especially for the data that may be dynamically …
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