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Germans devise attacks on Windows BitLocker
German researchers have devised five methods that determined attackers can use to bypass hard-drive encryption in recent versions of Microsoft operating systems. The methods, laid out by a research team from the Frauenhofer Institute
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Technology, can be used to access files protected by BitLocker drive encryption... … The researchers stress that the strategies are useful only for targeted attacks, such as those used in industrial espionage, where an attacker is willing to devote considerable effort to breaching a single individual's security. … Among the methods discussed is what they call a "hardware-level phishing attack," in which a target machine is replaced with a counterfeit one that provides precisely the same messages and prompts that the original machine would have produced. The imposter machine captures user input and relays it to the attacker, who then uses it on the real machine.
Date: 5 December 2009
More............http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/05/windows_bitlocker_attacks/
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