shaneis Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Here's a scary little video showing how easy it is to hack Vista. You will need backtrack (linux distro) burnt onto a cd, boot your vist PC from the backtrack cd, follow instructions on the video... looks like it takes all of 2 minutes http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html XP and earlier are not open to this vulnerability - Nice work Microsoft! "Our most secure version of Windows ever"! HA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Man, I am SO GLAD I put XP64 on my machine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazdaz Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 I can't watch this now, but will be interested in checking it out when I get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlekseyR Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 ha that is hilarious. but i feel it's bullshit. I mean if it was actually true, he wouldn't go to all the trouble of using linux if he could just use an ms-dos bootdisk. and how did he screenrecord vista booting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 One night my neighbor got drunk and changed his windows XP password, he had no idea what he changed it to, he called me over and told me about it, I went back to my place and looked online and found a tiny little program that you burn on to a CD, boot into the CD and it removes the need for a password...took me all of 20 minutes from beginning to end...so XP isn't any safer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneis Posted June 8, 2008 Author Share Posted June 8, 2008 Aleksey, William, you're both right and it is true that XP isn't any safer as the same process is used, however a different sys file is exploited. At any rate, once you have physical access to a PC there are many ways you can gain access to the data. Hey, you can even remove the HD, put it in an external enclosure and you're up and running, and most OS's are just as vulnerable...unless it is a *NIX OS and you have encrypted the HD at installation, meaning everything is encrypted, not just the user data. My main reason for posting was to illustrate that even if you don't have a FDD on your PC to use the old bootable-floppy trick, there is a way to fix lost/ forgotten passwords using a free linux distro and a cd. S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlekseyR Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 FDD? it's all on bootable usb sticks nowdays, keep up... lol by the way an easier way of getting into most pc's is by logging in in safe mode as an admin (ussually no passwords there) However for your own pc you should but something like your birthday so in case of forgeting or drunk friend incident, you can get back in. as admin you can clear all passwords no probs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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