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Windows Vista Code Signing already cracked
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Apr 3, 2007, 11:42 PM
 
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/87709

Some Indian security engineers at Black Hat demonstrated some software that boots a computer running Vista and allows you to modify memory contents on-the-fly; enabling you to run any sort of code with kernel privileges.

This was touted as Microsoft's biggest security improvement in Vista, in which software first had to be signed, then memory content would be shuffled around so that outside programs theoretically couldn't access specific data from a specific memory location.

Now it's been cracked.
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