full-disclosure - Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:06:28 -0500
From: "TheM ." <them.root@...il.com>
To: "Roger A. Grimes" <roger@...neretcs.com>
Cc: Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	Bugtraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

I believe their work is an expansion of this:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/security/hack-into-a-windows-pc-no-password-needed/2008/03/04/1204402423638.html,
which demonstrated the vuln. in XP (and, according to the paper, it's been
demonstrated with other OS's as well), and their work was specifically done
on showing the problem in Vista, which hadn't (as far as the paper writer
seems to know) been done before.

Maus

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Roger A. Grimes <roger@...neretcs.com>
wrote:

> As somewhat indicated in the paper itself, these types of physical DMA
> attacks are possible against any PC-based OS, not just Windows. If that's
> true, why is the paper titled around Windows Vista?
>
> I guess it makes headlines faster.  But isn't as important, if not more
> important, to say all PC-based systems have the same underlying problem?
>  That it's a broader problem needing a broader solution, instead of picking
> on one OS vendor to get headlines?
>
> [Disclaimer: I'm a full-time Microsoft employee.]
>
> Roger
>
> *****************************************************************
> *Roger A. Grimes, InfoWorld, Security Columnist
> *CPA, CISSP, CISA, MCSE: Security (2000/2003), CEH, yada...yada...
> *email: roger_grimes@...oworld.com or roger@...neretcs.com
> *Author of Windows Vista Security: Securing Vista Against Malicious
> Attacks (Wiley)
> *
> http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Vista-Security-Securing-Malicious/dp/0470101555
> *****************************************************************
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernhard Mueller [mailto:research@...-consult.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:54 AM
> To: Full Disclosure; Bugtraq
> Subject: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista
>
> Hello,
>
> In the light of recent discussions about firewire / DMA hacks, we would
> like to throw in some of the results of our past research on this topic
> (done mainly by Peter Panholzer) in the form of a short whitepaper. In this
> paper, we demonstrate that the firewire unlock attack (as implemented in
> Adam Boileau´s winlockpwn) can be used against Windows Vista.
>
> The paper is available at:
>
>
> http://www.sec-consult.com/fileadmin/Whitepapers/Vista_Physical_Attacks.pdf
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernhard
>
>
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