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Attacking Microsoft Windows Vista
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Once again security researcher Joanna Rutkowska took the stage at Black Hat, and once again she set out to prove in glorious detail how to exploit and attack Microsoft Windows Vista. Rutkowska blew the lid off last year’s Black Hat event with her landmark presentation ahead of the official Vista release where she demonstrated a virtualized rootkit called Blue Pill that took control over a Vista machine.
This year she brought a new pill and a few more tricks to take Vista to task. "I’m going to talk about Vista kernel protection and why it doesn’t work," Rutkowska boldly declared to the overflow crowd. She then read a quote from Microsoft’s Vista documentation that stated that even users with admin privileges cannot load unsigned kernel-mode code on the system. Then she smiled mischievously. Attacking Microsoft Windows Vista
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