22.02.2008 00:36 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Cold boot disk encryption attack is shockingly effective

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Storage It's an old adage that no security measure is worth anything if an attacker has physical access to the machine, but things like heavy-duty disk encryption are supposed to at least slow things down. Sadly, that may not actually be the case, as a group of Princeton researchers has just published a paper detailing an exploit that requires little more than a spray duster and a screwdriver. Since the encryption key for systems like BitLocker and FileVault lives in RAM, all an attacker has to do to get it is coo

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