[Fsf-friends] Hot News : Hack into Windows : Boileau publishes his tool

[Laxminarayan Kamath]

to paraquote a slashdot commenter, this affects the all firewire
controllers independent of what underlying operating system.

On 3/8/08, Omshiva prakash <omshivaprakash at gmail.com> wrote:
> A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can
> unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password.
>
> Boileau, a consultant with Immunity Inc., said he did not release the tool
> publicly in 2006 because "Microsoft was a little cagey about exactly whether
> Firewire memory access was a real security issue or not and we didn't want
> to cause any real trouble".
>
> But now that a couple of years have passed and the issue has not resolved,
> Boileau decided to release the tool on his website.
>
> To use the tool, hackers must connect a Linux-based computer to a Firewire
> port on the target machine. The machine is then tricked into allowing the
> attacking computer to have read and write access to its memory.
>
> With full access to the memory, the tool can then modify Windows' password
> protection code, which is stored there, and render it ineffective.
>
> below is the link
>
> http://storm.net.nz/projects/16
>
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