VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing 210
An anonymous reader writes "At the Black Hat Conference in Amsterdam, security experts from India demonstrated a special boot loader that gets around Vista's code-signing mechanisms. Indian security experts Nitin and Vipin Kumar of NV labs have developed a program called the VBootkit that launches from a CD and boots Vista, making on-the-fly changes in memory and in files being read. In a demonstration, the 'boot kit' managed to run with kernel privileges and issue system rights to a CMD shell when running on Vista, even without a Microsoft signature. The demo was run on Vista RC2. The researchers say the only reason they didn't do it on Vista final was cost. Schneier blogged the exploit."
Is it just me that thought (Score:5, Funny)
FTFA: "The researchers say the only reason they didn't do it on Vista final was cost."
New branding names (Score:5, Funny)
Roots for Sure
Clippy Boot: "You seem to be wanting to run as Admin, can I help?"
C'mon folks help me out!
Looks like it (Score:5, Funny)
"This is the Windows Vista Boot Sector Virus kit. Please burn this ISO to a CD and boot your computer with it."
Re:Boot Sector Virus (mod parent up) (Score:5, Funny)
No problem. We just send a flying circus over the BIOS, dump some VX gas on it, then march in with the industrial laser. Then we cut a hole, drop the virus in and, BOOM! Instant instability.
This is assuming, of course, Vista hasn't seduced the leader of the flying circus by this point, at which case the whole plan's shot to hell.
Not a good week and it's only 1/2 over (Score:5, Funny)
Hi, I'm a Mac (Score:3, Funny)
Hi, I'm a Mac...
...and I'm whatever the Russian mob wants me to be.
Re:New branding names (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Cost? (Score:2, Funny)
Cost of OS - $120
Price of extra gig of memory - $80
Look on Ballmer's face when Windows gets rooted - priceless!
Re:Fuck Alanis Morissette (Score:4, Funny)
So we should thank Microsoft? (Score:3, Funny)
kudos..free laptops for them (Score:2, Funny)
These researchers should have been the ones who must have received those free Vista pre-loaded Acer Ferrari laptops.