Friday, November 18, 2011

Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated

 

jhigh writes "An Austrian security researcher is scheduled to release the first 'bootkit' for Windows 8 at the upcoming MalCon in Mumbai. This exploit loads in the MBR and stays memory resident until Windows loads, resulting in root access to the system. This allegedly defeats the new secure boot features in Windows 8's bootloader."

 Read more of this story at Slashdot.

 

Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated
samzenpus
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:45:00 GMT

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