{"id":386,"date":"2006-08-07T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T06:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/08\/07\/vista-hacked-at-black-hat\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T06:13:11","slug":"vista-hacked-at-black-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/08\/07\/vista-hacked-at-black-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista hacked at Black Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Microsoft talked up<strong> Windows Vista security at Black Hat<\/strong>, a researcher in <strong>another room<\/strong> demonstrated <strong>how to hack<\/strong> the operating system. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joanna Rutkowska,<\/strong> a Polish researcher at Singapore-based Coseinc, showed that it is possible to <strong>bypass security measures <\/strong>in Vista that should prevent unsigned code from running. <\/p>\n<p>And in a <strong>second <\/strong>part of her talk, Rutkowska explained how it is possible to <strong>use virtualization technology to make malicious code undetectable<\/strong>, in the same way a rootkit does. She code-named this malicious software <strong>Blue Pill. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft is investigating solutions for the final release of Windows Vista to help <strong>protect against the attacks demonstrated<\/strong>,&#8221; a representative for the software maker said. &#8220;In addition, we are working with our hardware partners to investigate ways to help <strong>prevent the virtualization attack used by the Blue Pill.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1009_22-6102458.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Microsoft talked up Windows Vista security at Black Hat, a researcher in another room demonstrated how to hack the operating system. Joanna Rutkowska, a Polish researcher at Singapore-based Coseinc, showed that it is possible to bypass security measures in Vista that should prevent unsigned code from running. And in a second part of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,12],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","tag-microsoft","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}