Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
winlockpwn is a memory analysis tool released by Adam Boileau of storm.net.nz. This utility exploits firewire's direct memory access. The operating system allows firewire devices to directly read/write memory without having to go through the processor. Sounds handy right? I installed winlockpwn on Ubuntu 7.10 and a fully patched Windows ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password.
Adam Boileau first demonstrated the hack, which affects Windows XP computers but has not yet been tested with Windows Vista, at a security conference in Sydney in ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
A New Zealand security researcher has published a software tool allowing attackers to quickly gain access to Windows systems via a Firewire port.
The tool, which can only be used by attackers with physical access to a system, comes shortly after the publication of research on gaining access to encrypted hard ...
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