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Joanna Rutkowska

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Nationality
  
Polish

Employer
  
Invisible Things Labs

Name
  
Joanna Rutkowska

Occupation
  
Security researcher

Website
  
invisiblethingslab.com

Role
  
Researcher

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Known for
  
Blue Pill, Evil Maid attack, Qubes OS

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Joanna Rutkowska is a Polish computer security researcher, primarily known for her research on low-level security and stealth malware.

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She became known after the Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas in August 2006, where Rutkowska presented an attack against Vista kernel protection mechanism, and also a technique dubbed Blue Pill, that used hardware virtualization to move a running OS into a virtual machine. Subsequently she has been named one of Five Hackers who Put a Mark on 2006 by eWeek Magazine for her research on the topic. The original concept of Blue Pill was published by another researcher at IEEE Oakland on May 2006 under the name VMBR. Its effectiveness is a subject of a debate among some researchers.

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During following years, Rutkowska continued to focus on low-level security. In 2007 she demonstrated that certain types of hardware-based memory acquisition (e.g. FireWire based) are unreliable and can be defeated. Later in 2007, together with a team member Alexander Tereshkin, presented further research on virtualization malware. In 2008, Rutkowska with her team focused on Xen hypervisor security. In 2009, together with a team member Rafal Wojtczuk, presented an attack against Intel Trusted Execution Technology and Intel System Management Mode.

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In April 2007, Rutkowska founded Invisible Things Lab in Warsaw, Poland. The company focuses on OS and VMM security research and provides various consulting services.

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In 2010, she and Rafal Wojtczuk began working on the Qubes OS security-oriented, Fedora-based desktop Linux distribution whose main concept is "security by isolation" by using domains implemented as lightweight Xen virtual machines. Qubes 1.0 was officially released on September 3, 2012, 2.0 on September 26, 2014 and Qubes 3.0 on October 1, 2015.

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Joanna Rutkowska Wikipedia