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 ...

A cold boot removes power and clears memory (RAM) of all internal data and counters that keep track of operations, which are created by the OS and applications when they run.

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 ...

Cold Boot: A Chilling Attack. Cold-boot attacks were pioneered 10 years ago by researchers; they found that when a platform reboots or shuts down, ...

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 ...

All cold boot attacks require physical access and special hardware tooling to perform, and are generally not considered a threat vector for normal users, but only for computers storing highly ...

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 ...

Recently develop a really slow cold boot issue, PC is about 5 months old, and event viewer doesn't show really show anything other than a really slow cold ...

Mac OS X 10.2.6 can cold-boot correctly from external FireWire disks (in our case, a WiebeTech 20 GB) using some Macs, but never using other Macs, such as the iMac G3/700. In older iMac (and ...

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.

A cold boot, on the other hand, resets your hardware, and prevents such weird behavior. PCs with modern SSDs shouldn't bother with Fast Startup .