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Hit by a Bus: Physical Access Attacks with Firewire - 2008 - Ruxcon

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(Ab)uses of <strong>Firewire</strong><br />

• Bona-fide<br />

Forensic memory imaging<br />

Remote debugging<br />

• 50/50<br />

Recovering passwords, crypto keys, etc. from memory<br />

Pulling video memory (to get the contents of other video<br />

modes)<br />

• Downright nasty<br />

Bypassing authentication<br />

Owning stuff (e.g. escalating privs, dropping trojans)<br />

Anything you want. You have read/write to memory!<br />

Copyright Security-Assessment.com 2006

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