Adam Boileau's release of code to take ownership of a Windows system as reported in recent press is nothing new. He first released this 18 months ago at Ruxcon 2006 when working with Security-Assessment.com (Australia/Asia Pacific now known as Securus Global and NZ now owned by Datacraft).

So why the press now?

All this stuff about freezing RAM and getting into systems brought it all up and made people remember....hey, there's an easier way - Metl (Adam) showed us how 18 months ago! No patches from MS, so we assume it must be a feature.

This will be an interesting one to track. Sometimes the big ones don't get the attention they deserve for some reason. Work that out! 18 months??? Come on!

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