[XCSSA] Help I'm under attack!

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:01:40PM -0500, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> This the stuff that you're talking about?
> (FreeBSD) : http://www.trustedbsd.org/

Yep.

> (OpenBSD) :
> (2003 article) http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html

Not sure how that is relevant.

> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/
> http://www.openbsd.org/security.html

> Ah, not particular to OpenBSD,  but without appropriate hardware level
> controls, access controls can still be gotten around
> (http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/sciences/fichiers/lti/cansecwest2006-duflot-paper.pdf)

Very interesting article; I did not know most of the information in it.

I sent it along to my friend who works in AMD's chipset group, who says
he's going to see if their processor is vulnerable, and if they set the
SMM lock in their reference BIOS.
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