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Re: Reset a Windows 8 Password without using any third party software

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Post by Xylakant »

illuminate wrote: post #26
Xylakant wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, given that you can install a keylogger on the usb keyboard nowadays, it is - even with encrypted harddrives. Or you can freeze the RAM, remove it and read the encryption key. However, encryption makes things quite a bit harder.

Are there seriously examples of the RAM-freezing working, or is this a theoretical attack?

It's proven to work [1],[2] but I have no idea if it's used in the wild.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/cryogenically-frozen-ram-...

[2] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/new-research-resul...

Re: Reset a Windows 8 Password without using any third party software

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

antoncohen wrote: post #7

I can't believe they haven't fixed that. I discovered that the login prompt ran with system-level privileges in Windows 95. I used it to play Duke3D in computer class when I was 14. You could press Ctl+Alt+Del to bring up Task Manager, from Task Manager you could choose to run a command, and run explorer.exe. It would start Windows with full admin access.

Win95 is not built on the NT kernel, unlike Win2000+, and had no security groups. Everyone was admin all the time. Every process was admin.

Re: Reset a Windows 8 Password without using any third party software

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