An article in Datanews (dutch only) today reports on the police arresting four ex-CCC members on two facts:

They were linked to a terrorist organization in Italy
They had ‘encoding’ software on their PC’s to securely wipe hard drives. (most likely the reporter meant wiping instead of encoding.)

On the first fact, I can certainly agree but with [...]

I blogged about it before but every now and then someone finds a new physical ‘hack’ into windows. Here is an example of a recent hack using backtrack to gain access.
This just illustrates one of Microsoft’s 10 Immutable Laws of Security:
Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it’s not [...]

As you may know, firewire devices can have access to the main memory of a PC thanks to DMA.
Because of this, firewire can be used as an attack vector against a running PC. This not news. Adam Boileau presented this technique back in 2006 but because of recent news, I decided to give it a [...]

While I was looking into writing my own gadget for Vista’s Sidebar to display my Google Reader news, it hit me that Gadgets are really simple web browser applications.
They consist of only 1 XML and 1 HTML file in general and can contain JavaScript, vbscript, wmi scripts,… (everything basically). This should make you think because [...]

A friend of mine sent me an email today with a link to an article stating how NSA access was built into Windows.
Although, it seems that this news is quite old, I only heard from this today. In my opinion, it is very scary that there are master keys for the encryption in Windows. [...]