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Skype reads your BIOS data

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« on: February 12, 2007, 12:02:41 pm »


The Windows version of the video and telephony software Skype reads and stores the BIOS data of a user's computer. As a hacker with the pseudonym Myria reports in a blog entry, once the software is launched it saves an executable file called 1.com in the user's temporary folder. This file contains code that transmits the data found in the BIOS address area of the application to be launched. It is not yet clear what the Skype software does with the data, which may contain, among other things, the motherboard serial number. The mysterious .com file was only noticed because of an error message that Skype outputs when it is launched on systems running on 64-bit versions of Windows. 64-bit versions lack the "NT Virtual DOS Machine" (NTVDM), which allows direct access to BIOS memory pages and is required to execute the program. Since myria's blog entry is dated February the 6th 2007 presumably Skype added the BIOS reading code to their applications relatively recently.

Interestingly, the Skype software apparently also attempts to prevent the contents of the .com file that it has created, from being examined. Myria writes that the file could only be opened after the system had been rebooted because of a forced kernel panic.
This makes me very suspicious of Skype and I may have to reconsider using it from now on.



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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2007, 04:20:06 pm »

what purpose could BOIS be used for by hackers???

skype seems like a great deal in my opinion. I'm waiting on my first usb skype phone...
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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2007, 03:53:17 am »

Bios can be used in a number of ways by hackers.
If you load something into bios flash memory it will bypass virus scans.
You can even load a rootkit from the bios flash memory.
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« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2007, 06:46:03 am »

how do you stop skype using BIOS stuff then?
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« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2007, 08:48:03 am »

You cant without breaking it.
Im guessing that Skype for Linux hasnt got this in it though.
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