The 'intel anti-theft service' screen should show you who the 'service provider id' is, which is who enabled the security feature. You can contact them, and they can probably tell you something about it. You can look it up here:
Likely the motherboard you have was in a computer that was reported stolen. Someone stripped it down for parts and sold them, so the bios on that motherboard is locked until you can unlock it with the password. Which you probably can't do since it is doing what it was intended to do, and that is to prevent theft. So get a charge back on your c-card from who ever you bought it from, because you bought stolen goods.
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So heres my problem, Yesterday i plugged my laptop for the night because i was planning to use it today during a planned power outage on my street. I didn't unplug the laptop before the power went out. When it did, i grabbed my laptop and opened it, and as soon as I hit the powerbutton I get a beautiful dos-like page that tell me my laptop is locked by Intel Anti-theft due to : "platform attack detected" ?????? Of course I couldn't remember what that fucking password was so I was sol for using my laptop fo today. Now, with the power back on, I could acces my main pc where I had stored this password in some file. And in there I had a line about the password for the intel antitheft for the laptop, an Asus zenbook UX32VD. I try it, it simply doesn't work, and i'm like 99% this is the right password, i probably wrote it as soon as i was creating it....
Oh ok great! I guess I'll test it anyway but you sure? From what I read on some Dell support forum, if you don't have the master password you have to replace the harddrive and the motherboard (witch is something I can't do on a laptop obviously) to be able to use it again. So If I can just pop it in my main computer format it and be done with it that would be great, and then reinstall windows. But I don't see how I can change the boot order on the laptop since I really dont have time for that, it's straight up the anti-theft windows as soon as I power it on, nothing else. Also knowing that I'm not alone is good to know but fuck this suck....
My only hope would be if someone could tell me of an exploit of somesort to bypass this shitty software. I was thinking of removing the soldered iSSD (a small ssd of like 32gig) that is on this laptop, maybe the antitheft software is on that, but it is quite risky. And like I said, the only other option seems to be to change the motherboard... so yeah I'm quite fucked...
If anyone read this and need a solution : I was able to bypass the intel anti-theft by reseting the bios by unplugging my cmos battery AND short-circuit the two jumper caps next to the cmos with a screwdriver. After the that my computer booted normally to windows. So yeah, lucky me, but fuck that program jeez
From these two examples, it can be inferred that laptop theft is a serious problem that concerns both businesses and individuals. Victims of laptop theft can lose not only their software and hardware, but also sensitive data and personal information that have not been backed up. The current methods to protect the data and to prevent theft include alarms, anti-theft technologies utilized in the PC BIOS, laptop locks, and visual deterrents.
This article is focused on the BIOS anti-theft technologies. It starts with an overview of these technologies (Section 2). Next, the work discusses the legal (Section 3) and technological problems (Section 4) arising from the use of BIOS anti-theft technologies. Then, it recommends solutions to those problems (Section 5). Finally, a conclusion is drawn (Section 6).
BIOS anti-theft technologies are embedded in the majority of laptops sold on the market. They consist of two components, namely, an application agent and a persistence module. The application agent is installed by the user. It periodically provides device and location data to the anti-theft technology vendor. In case a laptop containing an installed application agent is stolen, the anti-theft technology vendor connects to the application agent with the aims of determining the location of the computer and deleting the data installed on the laptop.
Upon a request of the owner of the laptop, the anti-theft technology may permanently erase all data contained on the magnetic media. In order to make sure that the data have been deleted property, some anti-theft technology vendors overwrite the data sectors of the deleted files.
The persistence module is activated during the first call of the application agent to the anti-theft technology vendor. The persistence module restores the application agent if it has been removed. For instance, in case a thief steals a computer and reinstalls the operating system, the persistence module will restore the agent. It should be noted that, until the application agent is installed by the user, the persistence module remains dormant.
Principally, if the buyer of a laptop agrees with the installation of an application agent on her computer, there is nothing illegal in the use of anti-theft technologies. However, in some cases, a seller of a laptop may either accidentally activate the application agent before sending it out or sell to the buyer a machine that was originally meant for a customer who ordered a computer with an installed application agent.
The activation of an application agent without the consent of the user infringes most privacy laws around the world. In order to stop the violation of their privacy rights, the affected users may submit a request to the anti-theft vendor for the purpose of removing the application agent from their computers and have recourse to a court.
In 2009, security researchers Anibal Sacco and Alfredo Ortega published an article stating that the implementation of an application agent of a particular vendor embedded in the BIOS has security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can be used for insertion ofadangerous form of BIOS-enhanced rootkit that can bypass all chipset or installation restrictions and reutilize the existing features offered by an anti-theft technology.
In relation to the use of anti-theft technologies, a question arises as to whether the protection against thieves deserves paying the high price of having a low-level information security. In this regard, it should be pointed out that an unauthorized access to a computer system can be as disturbing as a theft of a laptop.
Firstly, anti-theft technology vendors should guarantee that the application agent is not accidentally activated. This can be done, for instance, by adopting a policy of activating the application agent only after receiving a written consent from the user.
Fourthly, anti-theft technology vendors should provide the users with a way to check whether the application agents are installed on their computers. At present, it is difficult for a layman to establish whether the application agent has been activated.
Concerning the technological problems related to the use of anti-theft technologies, this article recommends to the producers of BIOS anti-theft technologies that they put more effort in order to eliminate the vulnerabilities found by Anibal Sacco and Alfredo Ortega. Instead of responding by press releases containing statements that avoid discussion of the actual findings of the researchers, it would be better if the anti-theft technology vendors present technical facts indicating that the findings of the researchers are wrong, patching the problem, or offering any updates to fix the issue.
However, this article has shown that, apart from benefits, anti-theft technologies have two major drawbacks. The first drawback is that the privacy rights of the users are infringed when the application agent is activated without the consent of the user. The information security vulnerabilities of these technologies constitute the second drawback.
To find the correct password, attackers must check word after word until they find one which outputs the same hash value as the one they have stolen. While this sounds tedious, password cracking tool, such as Hashcat, are capable of calculating billions of hashes per second on a single computer.1 Renting cloud computing services allows security researchers and threat actors, alike, to perform these operations without needing to build specialist computers themselves. Virtual computing in the cloud is capable of calculating tens of billions of hashes per second. 2
Adversaries may use password cracking to attempt to recover usable credentials, such as plaintext passwords, when credential material such as password hashes are obtained. OS Credential Dumping can be used to obtain password hashes, this may only get an adversary so far when Pass the Hash is not an option. Further, adversaries may leverage Data from Configuration Repository in order to obtain hashed credentials for network devices.[1]
Techniques to systematically guess the passwords used to compute hashes are available, or the adversary may use a pre-computed rainbow table to crack hashes. Cracking hashes is usually done on adversary-controlled systems outside of the target network.[2] The resulting plaintext password resulting from a successfully cracked hash may be used to log into systems, resources, and services in which the account has access.
Monitor for many failed authentication attempts across various accounts that may result from password spraying attempts. It is difficult to detect when hashes are cracked, since this is generally done outside the scope of the target network. (ex: Windows EID 4625 or 5379)
Password cracking is when a hacker uncovers plaintext passwords or unscrambles hashed passwords stored in a computer system. Password cracking tools leverage computing power to help a hacker discover passwords through trial and error and specific password cracking algorithms. 2ff7e9595c
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