Windows7/Mac OSX both are referred to as serious vulnerabilities

On June 11th, in July of this year, the Hack in the Box hacking conference will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is said that hackers/white guests will show their new deadly operating system such as windows7/Mac OSX at this conference. Vulnerabilities, hackers say these vulnerabilities are near the core of the operating system, so it is very difficult to fix them. Such a vulnerability is said to exist in the 64-bit version of Windows 7.

This vulnerability was discovered by security experts Christophe Devine and Damien Aumaitre, who discovered the vulnerability in the DMA module part of the operating system. The vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the operating system's security and directly obtain the hardware. Control.

"This vulnerability is related to the motherboard function, so it is very difficult to fix from the software," said the organizer of the Hack in the Box conference. "The hacker can use this vulnerability to read and write system memory." Br>

Christophe Devine and Damien Aumaitre will also showcase another Windows 7 attack method at this hacking conference, where they will demonstrate a way to use PCMCIA cards to bypass Windows security measures.

According to the organizers, although the vulnerability is equivalent to Windows 7, the Mac OSX vulnerability found this time seems to be better repaired. This vulnerability will not only affect the Mac model, but also the security of the iPad touch, iPhone, iPad. The vulnerability was discovered by another security expert, Ilja van Sprundel.

The current vulnerability has been submitted to Microsoft and Apple respectively, but so far they have not responded.