Local Physical Attack Against VISTA To Obtain SYSTEM

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Pretty cool video doing a local physical attack against a Vista Box. http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html McGrew Security Blog pointed me to it: "he demonstrates a quick and easy way of obtaining SYSTEM privileges on a Vista system, given physical access to the machine. In the video, he uses BackTrack to replace Utilman.exe with a copy ...

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PowerShell - More than the command prompt

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Abstract Windows PowerShell™ is a new Windows command-line shell designed especially for system administrators. The shell includes an interactive prompt and a scripting environment that can be used independently or in combination. Introducing Windows PowerShell Most shells, including Cmd.exe and the SH, KSH, CSH, and BASH Unix shells, operate by executing a command ...

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