Monday, March 5, 2007

Vista activation hacked

Keznews.com posters are claiming that they have <A HREF="http://securitywatch.eweek.com/vista_product_activation_hacked_by_brute_force.html?kc=EWEWEMNL030507EP35C">hacked Vista product activation by brute force.</A>

Hackers at that site were boasting of being "Shocked Shocked Shocked" at having activated Vista Home Basic and having gotten a "valid key for my Vista business."

According to instructions for the hack, a process called "wscript.exe" that sucks up "a lot of CPU resources" throws some 10,000 keys per half hour at the system--a brute-force method that can take hours or days but which seems to be returning legitimate keys consistently.

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