Even though the official release date is not until March 1st, I upgraded BackTrack 5 to R2 today following this excellent guide. But after the full upgrade I found that VMware Workstation was not working. Ah, the fun of being an early adopter. Time to patch and recompile the sources (thanks to Weltall for providing… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: February 2012
Video – Hacking OS X FileVault2 over Thunderbolt with Inception
I’ve created a short video showing how to attack OS X Lion with FileVault2 enabled using my tool, Inception. In the video, I attack a fully patched Mac OS X Lion machine with full-disk encryption enabled (FileVault2), while the machine is powered on and a user is logged in. Using Inception, I am able to dump… Read more »
Adventures with Daisy in Thunderbolt-DMA-land: Hacking Macs through the Thunderbolt interface
We security folks often feel like we are regurgitating the same type of security issues over and over again, just in new contexts. So depending on how you look at it, this is “old new” or “new old” news. Nevertheless, I thought it would be a good idea to take it down from speculation to… Read more »