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New cold boot attack affects “nearly all modern computers”
- ankka 8y agoOriginal source https://blog.f-secure.com/cold-boot-attacks/ https://blog.f-secure.com/cold-boot-attacks/
- ryanlol 8y agoWhat’s the “new attack” here? This seems like a rather standard cold boot attack.
- smittywerben 8y agoI'm not in the security area, so I'm wondering the same. From the article: > like all previous cold boot attacks, their method requires physical access and a special tool to extract leftover RAM.
- ryanlol 8y ago>But security researchers from Finnish cyber-security firm F-Secure discovered that they could disable this feature by modifying firmware settings and steal data from a computer's RAM after a cold reboot. I guess this is supposed to be the "new" thing. This is really obvious though, so calling it a "new attack" seems a bit ridiculous. The talk wasn't bad though.
- jnurmine 8y agoThey modify things to bypass the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) protection of overwriting the RAM when the power comes back, they also enable external booting, and: "Cold boot attacks can then be carried out by booting a special program off a USB stick."
- JoshuaAshton 8y agoThis isn't new. If you have complete unrestricted access to a computer then its not really "an attack" is it?