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How to hack Vista before it boots

Bruce Schneier had an interesting blog "VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing Mechanisms" that is definitely worth reading. It refers to story about a paper presented at the recent Black Hat Conference in Amsterdam. The paper shows how how a special bootloader gets around Vista's code signing mechanisms.

If you can control the hardware, you can control the software. This code allows for control of the operating kernel. Thus it's a powerful rootkit attack.

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Posted by Guy Huntington on April 4, 2007 8:26 AM |

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