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Re: Award 4.51PG (copyrighted 1998), new backdoor SY_MB
From: Doug Kahler <dougak () TAMPABAY RR COM>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:21:52 -0400
You wouldnt happen to have a Soyo mainboard? the SY in the backdoor password makes me think its a backdoor password Soyo may have put in the BIOS. I have a Soyo 6BA+III mainboard and that backdoor password works on it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bluefish" <11a () GMX NET> To: <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 9:01 PM Subject: Award 4.51PG (copyrighted 1998), new backdoor SY_MB
While doing some dirty work for Christophe Grenier (we help eachothers once in a while, both develop different BIOS password recovery tools) I tested the Award 4.51/4.60 masterpassword cracker in my own toolkit, !BIOS. To my surprise, it actually printed a password (on other computers I've tried so far it has only returned junk - the manufacturer has not enabled the backdoor passsword). After some testing, it turns out password works. I am however not sure how many computers have this backdoor password installed. If people successfully uses this backdoor, please send me a message so I get an idea of how common this passoword is. The backdoor password is: SY_MB NOTICE: This password is case-sensitive. Keep shift down while typing the password. Also, the BIOS assumes American keyboard layout, so the underscore is shift down and pressing the second key left of backspace (the "?+\" key on Swedish keyboards) My thanks goes to Juergen Gloeckener who created the original Award 4.51/4.60 Masterpassword cracker and aided me in porting it to "!BIOS". ..:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.. http://www.11a.nu || http://bluefish.11a.nu eleventh alliance development & security team
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- Award 4.51PG (copyrighted 1998), new backdoor SY_MB Bluefish (Jul 28)
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- Re: Award 4.51PG (copyrighted 1998), new backdoor SY_MB Doug Kahler (Jul 30)