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.

What is a Cold Boot or Platform Reset Attack? How it is executed, why it is named a Cold Boot Attack? Precautions you can implement to reduce the effects of such attacks.

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.

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

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

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 computer industry thought cold boot hacks were solved 10 years ago. Researchers have proven that's not the case.

The attack subscribes to the cold-boot category and exploits a weakness in how the computers protect the low-level software responsible for interacting with the RAM.

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 recent study -- conducted by Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation -- revealed how successful cold boot attacks can be launched on disk encryption. According to the study ...

With this cold boot attack, if people lock their screens or even suspend their laptops, you could pull the power, grab the RAM contents and scrub it for any encryption keys. Essentially, you could ...