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Windows passwords bypassed over Firewire with no trouble

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05-03-2008, 03:22 PM

Damon

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Windows passwords bypassed over Firewire with no trouble

I found an interesting article today on www.engadget.com and would like to share it with you.

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We're starting to see more and more attacks take advantage of what's stored on your computer's RAM - the latest, from New Zealand's Adam Boileau, allows an attacker to unlock Windows passwords in a just a few seconds using a Linux machine connected over Firewire. Unlike those disk encryption attacks we saw that required a reboot, Boileu's attack works while the target computer is running, tricking Windows into allowing full write access to RAM and then corrupting the password protection code. That's a little scary, but other researchers say that it's not a traditional vulnerability, since direct memory access is a feature of Firewire. Still, we're sealing up all of our ports with Silly Putty starting today, that ought to stop 'em.

12-03-2008, 09:33 AM	#2
jacksdiner Investor Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Manila Posts: 214	nice articels i never knew that passwords or anything was kept in a computers RAM __________________ EUDOI

27-03-2008, 08:12 AM	#3
stacyj I'm ready to invest! Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 38	I never knew that too. But no matter where our passwords are kept in the computer i bet a hacker will find out where it is and find a way to hack into our system. I have been hacked once before. I don't know how in the world it happened but they got in and made a mess of my files.

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