Part one of this pair of columns described “cold boot attacks” and their security implications, in particular for software-implemented full-disk encryption. Security expert Jurgen Pabel continues with ...
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 paper ...
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, most ...
Whenever I'm having a bad day with the operating system and think software is terrible I can always remember that firmware is usually worse and blindly trusted by what runs on top of it. OSes have ...
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Recent research from Princeton, McGraw Security Services illustrates how the lack of encryption specifications in legislation could put consumer data at risk. Last winter, researchers at Princeton ...
F-Secure's Olle Segerdahl and Pasi Saarinen found a way to rewrite the non-volatile memory chip that contains the security settings, thus disabling memory overwriting. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...
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 ...
Security researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany have shown that they can extract photos, surfing history, and contact lists from Android smartphones, even if the phone is ...
Researcher creates ‘Selfblow’ proof-of-concept attack for exploiting a vulnerability that exists in “every single Tegra device released so far”. A flaw impacting millions of mobile and internet of ...
It's funny how the demands of FOSS lovers are labelled unreasonable, yet every time they are proven to be right, with every product they criticize. Open firmware would make changing this a trivial (or ...
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