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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"06.03.2008 - This summer, after 30 years at the helm of Microsoft,
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and can Microsoft afford to let him go?........."
Story at http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10457
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The great Bill manages to run away with his share of the booty...
CK Raju
Thrissur
Congratulations to our friends in Kerala are in order, I think:
Kerala shuts windows, schools to use only Linux
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html
I'd like to get my hands on a copy of the courseware... is it freely
available?
Regards,
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"The OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva ended in tears.
World XML expert Tim Bray (pictured) immediately recorded his thoughts
on the meeting, and his verdict was withering: despite some good that
perhaps came of it ("With a very few exceptions, everyone really tried
hard to work together and make the document better," he writes), he
described the BRM process as "complete, utter, unadulterated
bullshit." ".....
.... "In practice this means that the heavy politics starts Monday
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vacations in Tasmania or Nunavut."
Read the whole report at http://java.sys-con.com/read/509779.htm
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