Sunday, March 23, 2008

Whitepaper: Firewire Hack on Windows Vista

This paper from the SEC Consult vulnerability lab describes how the fireware hack can be applied to Windows Vista. By overwriting certain memory regions using the firewire DMA feature, password authentication under Vista can be deactivated.

SEC Consult Whitepaper
http://www.sec-consult.com/fileadmin/Whitepapers/Vista_Physical_Attacks.pdf

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