Yes, if someone get administrative access to the virtual machine is able to boot it from an external media it will work the same as way with a physical PC (I have not tested it myself, but encountered blog posts where people actually used VM to safely test this tool and bypassed their password successfully). Would such a tool be able to hack a virtual machine? As a side note, he promotes a commercial encryption product in his video description, so. Regarding the video the author claims to have already enabled the two latter recommendations using Dell's Control Point Security Manager, but it seems obviously untrue (encrypted disks are officially unsupported by Kon Boot, see here, here and there), either because the video author mistakenly did not setup these features correctly, or for other reasons. Insert U Disk Then open the kon-bootUSB folder and run the selected item as an. Whether this limitation can help to guard against this attack, I'm not sure. first step: Install kon-boot 2.7 or 2.5 version. Create bootable Windows USB thumbdrive with FlashBoot Put your entire OS, your documents and your apps in the pocket and boot Windows from USB everywhere you go Also you can install Windows from USB with FlashBoot, convert boot CD to USB and more. If I load kon-boot via a CD, it loads into Windows just fine. This seems to only happen if booting from the USB stick. However, when I select Kon-boot from the Others menu, it starts to load, then returns to the UBCD menu list.

Use full disk encryption, this recommendation being the most important one.Īs a side note, Kon Boot documentation states that it does not work on system where the BIOS available memory is too small. I have successfully created an UBCD USB stick using the instructions provided with UBCD.

Use Trusted Boot where TPM chip is available (most professional laptops have one, this Dell Latitude has one),.

Lo and behold, when we plugged in our NetHunter device USB cable to a target computer, the Kon-Boot image booted and allowed us to bypass a Windows 8.1 login screen.

Prevent your computer to boot from an external media by setting appropriate options at the BIOS level and protecting this configuration using a BIOS password, We went ahead and purchased a commercial version of Kon-Boot, and tried using the provided Kon-Boot image file as our bootable USB payload.

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