Hacks Vista With Rootkit Technology

[infoseeker]

Black Hat Attendee Hacks Vista With Rootkit Technology

[highlight]Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska of Singapore-based Coseinc last week showed attendees of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas how to use her "Blue Pill" technique to hack into the Windows Vista operating system. She used an early beta version of the OS in her demo.

While some applauded Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)   for displaying its new Vista operating system among some of the world's top software security researchers at the Black Hat hacker  conference in Las Vegas last week, others set out to give the software giant a black eye.

Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska of Singapore-based Coseinc showed an overflowing room of onlookers at the conference how to hack Vista. Rutkowska figured out a way to bypass security measures in the beta version of the operating system that could prevent unsigned code from running.

Rutkowska told attendees in a large ballroom at Ceasars Palace how to use virtualization technology to develop malicious code that is undetectable, much like a rootkit. She even has a name for the malware: Blue Pill.[/highlight]

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/YhMqe5DNGgu0PJ/Black-Hat-Attendee-Hacks-Vista-With-Rootkit-Technology.xhtml

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[honvetops]

Black Hat Attendee Hacks Vista With Rootkit Technology

[highlight]Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska of Singapore-based Coseinc last week showed attendees of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas how to use her "Blue Pill" technique to hack into the Windows Vista operating system. She used an early beta version of the OS in her demo.

While some applauded Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)   for displaying its new Vista operating system among some of the world's top software security researchers at the Black Hat hacker  conference in Las Vegas last week, others set out to give the software giant a black eye.

Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska of Singapore-based Coseinc showed an overflowing room of onlookers at the conference how to hack Vista. Rutkowska figured out a way to bypass security measures in the beta version of the operating system that could prevent unsigned code from running.

Rutkowska told attendees in a large ballroom at Ceasars Palace how to use virtualization technology to develop malicious code that is undetectable, much like a rootkit. She even has a name for the malware: Blue Pill.[/highlight]

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/YhMqe5DNGgu0PJ/Black-Hat-Attendee-Hacks-Vista-With-Rootkit-Technology.xhtml

Panting slowly,  "I wonder if she is single" ?  

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Panting slowly,  "I wonder if she is single" ?    

[patio]

More yellow.... :-/

patio.   8-)

[chriscool9]

Do these people have lives?!?! I mean come on, they have a meeting to find new ways of hacking into things, GET A LIFE LOSERS! Can someone please explain to me why they do this?! Also what kind of kicks do they get out of screwing over other peoples machines?!?!

Chris

[Sidewinder]

Actually I would think the hackers provide a service to the software publishers as to where the weaknesses are in their software. In a perfect world, the publishers would use this information to tighten up their code to everyone's benefit.

On the other hand not everything is what it appears. Check out Blue Pill for another opinion.

 8-)

[chriscool9]

Yes but if there wernt any hackers then there wouldnt be any need to tighten up security would there?!

Chris

[Zylstra]

Do these people have lives?!?! I mean come on, they have a meeting to find new ways of hacking into things, GET A LIFE LOSERS! Can someone please explain to me why they do this?! Also what kind of kicks do they get out of screwing over other peoples machines?!?!

Chris

This person attended the BlackHat meeting that night for a reason;
to bring forth the issue, and help solve it.
The Black Hat convention prevents stuff like this. They are the top security specialists.

[chriscool9]

Oh right, then they are doing this for good?!?! I thought they were just a bunch of nerds who got together to try and hack into things. Ok ill rephrase my question. Why do OTHER hackers do it, you know the ones that design viruses and stuff. Why do they bother?!

Chris

[Zylstra]

Oh right, then they are doing this for good?!?! I thought they were just a bunch of nerds who got together to try and hack into things. Ok ill rephrase my question. Why do OTHER hackers do it, you know the ones that design viruses and stuff. Why do they bother?!

Chris

Many simply to make money!

(what happened to my avatar?)

Anyways:
Yes, to make money. Many viruses take personal information, eg: credit card numbers, bank accounts, etc...
This can be used for fraud to make some doe. And many do it to show they can. Some do it for fun.

[chriscool9]

The fact that there are less nerdier ways of enjoying yourself, but if thats how some people enjoy themselves then fine.
Is it a practicaly risk free way of earning money. I.E is there much chance your going to get caught?!
But the kind of people im talking about are the ones who like you say do it for fun and/or to show they can, some people may get kicks out of it and that is their desicion but personaly i think its pretty sad! Thanks for reply tho!

Chris

[homer]

i am sorry to say that with prices of software soaring, piracy is also going to soar. with piracy soaring, companies are going to have to hire security specialist. heres the math...

companies hiring security specialists = company spending more money = prices of their software goes up = piracy goes up = companies hiring security specialists..........

it a visious circle. we have software piracy to thank for our high software costs.

i believe we are going to see many more software security companies emerge in the near future.

[Zylstra]

i am sorry to say that with prices of software soaring, piracy is also going to soar. with piracy soaring, companies are going to have to hire security specialist. heres the math...

companies hiring security specialists = company spending more money = prices of their software goes up = piracy goes up = companies hiring security specialists..........

it a visious circle. we have software piracy to thank for our high software costs.

i believe we are going to see many more software security companies emerge in the near future.

Year 2029
Microsoft Windows 29
Price: 100,000 for one home license

[GX1_Man]

And has to be activated by their orbiting satellite.  

[Fed]

Whenever I'm on my computer I wear my foil hat, you just can't be too careful.

[Blink]

rofl yeah i do the same. and when i lan with all my mates we all wear our foil hats together. its a really attractive look actually.