Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption 192
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timothy
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from the war-of-attrition dept.
mattOzan writes with this excerpt from H-online: "At Black Hat USA 2009, Austrian IT security specialist Peter Kleissner presented a bootkit called Stoned which is capable of bypassing the TrueCrypt partition and system encryption. The bootkit uses a 'double forward' to redirect I/O interrupt 13h, which allows it to insert itself between the Windows calls and TrueCrypt."
Re:Is this really surprising? (Score:3, Funny)
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* look inside your computer once in a while
For WHAT?!?!? Gnomes transcribing your keystrokes?
Oblig (Score:5, Funny)
Re:LFP is doomed (Score:5, Funny)
This sure is a big hit on the Linux for Pedophiles distro.
What part of "insert itself between the Windows calls and TrueCrypt" did you miss?
Maybe that's what he calls Windows?