New modification of the old cold boot attack leaves most systems vulnerable The defenses put in place to thwart the 2008 attack turn out to be very weak.

The attack bypasses BIOS mitigations for cold-boot compromise on models from Apple, Dell, Lenovo and all others made in the last 10 years.

Security researchers find a new way to disable current cold boot attack firmware security measures to steal sensitive data from high-value computers.

As [anfractuosity] shows, you can perform a cold boot attack with a Raspberry Pi, with a reasonably simple hardware setup and a hefty chunk of bare-metal code.

Cold boot mitigations in modern computers make the attack a bit more involved than it was 10 years ago, but a reliable way to decrypt lost or stolen computers would be extremely valuable for a ...

The defenses put in place to thwart the 2008 attack turn out to be very weak. Read the whole story ...

* The cold-boot attack on RAM Until 2008, the consensus had been that there would be no practical way to remove a RAM chip from a computer system without losing all contained data. However, last ...

A cold boot attack is a way to extract RAM contents from a running system by power cycling it and reading out RAM immediately after loading your own OS. How easy is it for you to perform such an ...

The cold boot attack is possible because of a little-known property of the random access memories used in computers to store and read data quickly. Random access memory is volatile meaning that it ...

Almost 'all modern computers' affected by cold boot attack, researchers warn The attack would allow potential hackers to steal sensitive information stored on your RAM.

South Korean phone manufacturer LG has released a security update last month to fix a vulnerability that impacts its Android smartphones sold over the past seven years. The vulnerability, tracked ...

Cybersecurity researchers discovered that weaknesses in the firmware of modern PCs and Macs could allow hackers to revive the decade-old cold boot attack to steal sensitive data from your computer ...