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  Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption

  Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 1:43am CEST by timothy

  Tags:  security  

  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."

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