Such an attack is called cold boot attack. Imagine a computer lying unattended at some organization for a few minutes. Any hacker just has to set his tools in place and turn off the computer.

Hibernation + pre-boot authentication is the best protection against cold boot attacks. No keys in memory to steal! — olle@nxs.se (@nxsolle) September 4, 2018.

Cold boot attacks, used to extract sensitive data such as encryption keys and passwords from system memory, have been given new blood by researchers from F-Secure. First documented in 2008, cold ...

How To Protect Yourself Against Cold Boot Attacks As dangerous as they are, cold boot attacks aren't all that hard to defend against. One of the simplest defenses is to trade sleep mode for ...

To carry out the attack, the F-Secure researchers first sought a way to defeat the the industry-standard cold boot mitigation. The protection works by creating a simple check between an operating ...

Of the many different ways of attacking computer content, one of the more interesting is the cold boot attack. This came to light in 2008 when a group of researchers at Princeton University ...

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

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 July, researchers published a ...

Recent research from Princeton, McGraw Security Services illustrates how the lack of encryption specifications in legislation could put consumer data at risk.

Cold boot attacks have been around since 2008 and involve stealing information stored on a computer that hasn't been shutdown properly, or left in a vulnerable sleeping state.

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