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Windows XP FireWire Attack Also Defeats Windows Vista
By Thomas Claburn 
InformationWeek
March 5, 2008 04:55 PM

A two-year old authentication bypass technique that received wide
attention earlier this week as a means to get around Windows XP password
protection also works on Windows Vista, a report released on Wednesday
reveals. 

On Monday, New Zealand-based security researcher Adam Boileau released
"winlockpwn," software for bypassing Windows XP SP2 authentication using
a Linux PC connected via FireWire to a target Windows PC. He also
explained that the technique works against computers running Linux, Mac
OS X, and BSD Unix.

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