Uninformed is pleased to announce the release of its eighth volume. This volume includes 6 articles on a variety of topics: - Covert Communications: Real-time Steganography with RTP Author: I)ruid - Engineering in Reverse: PatchGuard Reloaded: A Brief Analysis of PatchGuard Version 3 Author: Skywing - Exploitation Technology: Getting out of Jail: Escaping Internet Explorer Protected Mode Author: Skywing - Exploitation Technology: OS X Kernel-mode Exploitation in a Weekend Author: David Maynor - Rootkits: A Catalog of Local Windows Kernel-mode Backdoor Techniques Authors: skape & Skywing - Static Analysis: Generalizing Data Flow Information Author: skape This volume of the journal can be found at: http://www.uninformed.org/?v=8 About Uninformed: Uninformed is a non-commercial technical outlet for research in areas pertaining to security technologies, reverse engineering, and low level programming. The goal, as the name implies, is to act as a medium for providing informative information to the uninformed. The research presented in each edition is simply an example of the evolutionary thought that affects all academic and professional disciplines. - The Uninformed Staff staff [at] uninformed.org