Cracking Windows using a bootable Vista DVD
Jun 17th, 2007 @ 11:13
MSBlog has an interesting, and incredibly disturbing, blog post about how much you can do with a Vista bootable DVD.
All a person has to do is to boot a computer into the recovery mode using the command prompt, which doesn't require user name or password. This means, that the cracker can get full access to the hard drive.
Here you have full access to this computer, not only as an administrator but also as a system account user. After this you can insert usb-memory and copy any non-encrypted file from this computer to usb-memory and steal information without leaving any marks to the system or event viewer logs.
Also, you could for example copy SAM-file (contains names and passwords of local users) from c:\windows\system32\config to usb-memory and start cracking computer’s user password at remote computer.
A cracker can:
- copy files from hard disk to USB, floppy or network server
- create / modify / delete files and folders
- use most of the MS-DOS like commands
- use this method in Vista, XP, 200x
As a means of protection Patrick S from MSBlog advices you to the following:
- setup bios boot order so that booting from other media than hard disk is not possible
- setup startup password from your bios (mainly in home computers)
- use hard disk encryption software, if possible (such as bit locker)
- encrypt files and folders using EFS, if mechanisms above are not possible
Tags: Microsoft, Security, Software, Windows
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