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  Windows PCs open to FireWire hack
Time: 15:56 EST/20:56 GMT | News Source: PC Advisor | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Attackers can quickly compromise Windows PCs via a FireWire port, according to a security researcher who has published a software tool to enable the hack.

The tool, which can be used only by attackers with physical access to a system, comes shortly after the publication of research on gaining access to encrypted hard drives via physical access to memory.

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#1 By 92283 (64.180.201.131) at Saturday, March 08, 2008 04:00:51 PM
"Researcher Maximillian Dornseif demonstrated a similar exploit on Linux and Mac OS X systems at the CanSec conference in 2005, connecting to those systems via a malicious iPod and FireWire."

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I can think of myriad ways to hack into workstations and servers alike once inside the premises of a company. If I had to guard against all of these plus threats from the outside, the computers would be locked down so tight no one would get anything done.


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