Joanna Rutkowska

IRL Name: 
Joanna Rutkowska
Biography: 

Joanna Rutkowska leads a team of researchers who focus on system-level security. This includes kernel, hypervisor, chipset and CPU security issues. The recent achievements of the team include: bypassing Intel TXT, attacks on SMM, Intel AMT and BIOS, and demonstration of practical Xen hypervisor compromises. She is also known for writing Blue Pill -- the first virtualization-based rootkit with nested hypervisors support, and also for her work on various kernel mode malware for Windows and Linux. Joanna holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Warsaw University of Technology.

Facts

Mostly known for her teams release of bluepill (a rootkit leveraging hardware based virtualization technology)

Founder/CEO of Invisible Things Laboratories

Put a VM in a VM so you can virtualize while you virtualize

Rumors

Joanna and Dan Kaminsky have been engaged since 100 years ago, and they plan to marry on Gay Parade day real soon.

Born as a male named Jan Krzysztof Rutkowski

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