Re: Stealing Password from BIOS

["Sandeep Cheema" <51l3n7 () live in>]

It actually depends upon the BIOS make and build. Like for the Dell latitude 
there's Latitude_MasterPW.exe. What BIOS are you trying to get across?

Regards, Sandeep


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From: "Jon Kibler" <Jon.Kibler () aset com>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 16:00
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Subject: Stealing Password from BIOS

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> A couple of years back I saw a tool illustrated at a conference that
> would pull the encoded password from BIOS. However, Google fails to show
> any such tool.
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> Note that I am not trying to clear/reset the password. What I want to do
> is to recover a BIOS password during a pen-test so I can reboot the box
> at will without making any changes to the box.
>
> Any pointers greatly appreciated.
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