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Low Tech - High Stakes
We're all familiar with movies such as "Mission Impossible" or "Oceans 11" which depict spectacular break-ins featuring some high-tech method of defeating the elaborate security s...
System Management Mode Rootkit Innovation
System Management Mode (SMM) is an often overlooked operating state featured on Intel processors since the 80386. It existed to simplify debugging system code (whether operating system or even firmwa...
Firewire Interface Hack
Since the early days of PCs, chips called DMA (Direct Memory Access) controllers were introduced to offload data intensive tasks from the processor. This technology is what made soundcards tolerable ...
Windows Vista Cracked Using OEM Bypass
Hackers have long been defeating Microsoft's copy protection mechanisms with elegant solutions. However, for the past year, the only known way to defeat Vista's activation was to alter the clock on t...
Drive Encryption Defeated
With the numerous cases of lost and stolen laptops containing sensitive and private information making headlines, governments and businesses have turned to drive encryption as a means of mitigating th...
DoubleTwist to Offer Cross Platform Media Transparency
Jon Johansen achieved instant Internet fame in 2000 when, as a teenager, he released a program called DeCSS which broke the encryption scheme used to prevent DVD copying. Eight years later, DVD Jon (...
Drive By Hacking
Hackers are always coming up with new attack vectors through which to infect and "own" computers. In the old days, the targets were often specific hosts with the intent to glean information...