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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0166 Researcher to Demonstrate VISTA Attacks:

A security researcher known for picking apart the security mechanisms built into Windows is to demonstrate new ways for hackers to invade Windows VISTA, including rootkit techniquest and ways to defeat BitLocker drive encryption. The researcher recently announced she will be running a training session called "Understanding Stealth Malware" during Black Hat Briefings and Training event in Las Vegas, which runs from 28JUL to 02AUG2007. The training session promises to demonstrate new rootkits developed for VISTA, ways of defeating hardware-based forensics systems, and other techniques Microsoft would probably prefer the world didn't know. The researcher isn't against Windows as such, but has a track record of ferreting out its weaknesses. She recently uncovered a number of flaaws in VISTA's much-hyped User Account Control (UAC) feature, which led Microsoft to declare that the feature wasn't really intended for security after all. Until recently she was a researcher for Coseinc, but is now in the process of founding a security start-up based in Poland.

(PCWorld 30APR07)

Last Modified: Sunday, 06-May-2007 09:26:42 EDT