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Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption

Posted by timothy on from the war-of-attrition dept.

mattOzan writes with this excerpt from H-online: "At Black Hat USA 2009, Austrian IT security specialist Peter Kleissner presented a bootkit called Stoned which is capable of bypassing the TrueCrypt partition and system encryption. The bootkit uses a 'double forward' to redirect I/O interrupt 13h, which allows it to insert itself between the Windows calls and TrueCrypt."

3 of 192 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Is this really surprising? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...

    * look inside your computer once in a while

    ...

    For WHAT?!?!? Gnomes transcribing your keystrokes?

  2. Oblig by ParanoiaBOTS · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/538/

  3. Re:LFP is doomed by node+3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This sure is a big hit on the Linux for Pedophiles distro.

    What part of "insert itself between the Windows calls and TrueCrypt" did you miss?

    Maybe that's what he calls Windows?