Joanna Rutkowska

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Joanna Rutkowska is a Polish security specialist, primarily known for her contributions to Windows Vista backdoor installation and hiding techniques. On 2006-08-04, at a Black Hat Briefings conference, Rutkowska successfully demonstrated two of such methods to hack Windows Vista Beta 2, and subsequently, has been named one of Five Hackers who Put a Mark on 2006 by eWeek Magazine for her research on this topic [1].

The first method proposed by Rutkowska on Black Hat Briefings bypasses the Vista integrity checking system, which enables unsigned code to be loaded into the kernel. The second method, which is essentially a rootkit named the Blue Pill, enables processes to run undetected through the use of CPU virtualization. The latter method, claimed to be 100% undetectable, has been proven to be very detectable indeed, using timing analysis with an external timesource[2].

She currently works as a researcher for COSEINC, a Singapore based IT security company.

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  1. ^ Five Hackers Who Left a Mark on 2006, Ryan Naraine, eWeek.com
  2. ^ Debunking the Blue Pill-myth

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