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Warming the cold boot a bit of braggin from BitArmor

2008-02-28 13:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...cold-boot-attacks/ ) for a high level look at how we deal with specific cold boot threats As soon as we can write up detailed information on exactly how we are dealing with the specific cold boot threats in our FDE (full disk encryption) as well as PFE (persistent file encryption) solutions, we will put it up here. Look for more information...
 
Tags: approach, happy approach, disk encryption products, disk encryption, complexity approach, bitarmor, disk encryption technologies, researchers, princeton researchers
 
 
 
 
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To sleep, power off or hibernate - cold boot and user behaviour..

2008-03-14 16:14:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...cold boot risk is real - is it too esoteric? Who do we know lugs around cans of liquid nitrogen to bring DRAM to 0 degree Kelvin!?! Maybe the guy who makes the Terminator movies I must admit the video was cool to watch - frozen chips... And therefore, most of the focus seems to have gone in that direction - thinking that one needs to cool...
 
Tags: larger hibernation file, hibernation, larger hibernation file-, power, cool, chips, cold boot attack, power modes, cold boot risk
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...Cold Boot Crypto Attack on hard disk encryption ( more info MiFare RFID Cards ( more info Skimming devices attached to ATM machines to steal card and PIN data ( more info Of course, all of these systems worked in the lab. But when a security system is widely deployed, it has to withstand an enormous amount of scrutiny, and minor flaws will be...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics
 
 
 
 
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How your cold explains network intrusion

2008-07-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b497f8 in Network World on Security
 
With the cold an flu season most definitely upon us, there is much that the common cold can show us about network intrusion and what can happen once a single compromise has taken place
 
Tags: cold, network intrusion, common cold, single compromise, flu season
 
 
 
 
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For your hacking pleasure - Cold Boot utilities released!

2008-07-23 13:32:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Cold Boot attack work, Jacob Applebaum, published all the utilities they used to break full disk encryption products We, at BitArmor, have talked a bit about cold boot and how we protect against it. Our CEO Patrick and a few of our senior engineers will be presenting at Black Hat on techniques to prevent this attack - check out his...
 
Tags: cold boot, disk encryption products, ceo patrick, original researchers, utilities, jacob applebaum, senior engineers, princeton days, black hat
 
 
 
 
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'Cold Boot' encryption hack unlikely, says Microsoft

2008-02-26 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A Microsoft product manager is downplaying the "Cold Boot" threat posed by attackers trying to snag data off computer memory and said there are steps Vista users can take to ward off such threats
 
Tags: cold boot, microsoft product manager, steps vista users, snag data, threat posed, computer memory, attackers, ward, threats
 
 
 
 
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Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says

2008-05-13 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers
 
Tags: cold boot, vendor hyblue, princeton researchers, encryption hack, prevent
 
 
 
 
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A sneak peek at a Black Hat presentation

2008-07-30 18:08:27 by HASH0x8c270c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Cold (Boot) A Sneak Peek of My Presentation at Black Hat by Patrick McGregor Cold boot attacks arent theoretical academic exercises. Cold boot attacks are real. And theyre serious In the past few years, companies have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into full disk encryption technologies. Companies expect full disk encryption to reduce...
 
Tags: boot, bios boot process, cold boot attacks, attacks, cold, black hat, disk encryption, keys, wipe keys immediately
 
 
 
 
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Obama Still Fighting For His Right To Blackberry

2009-01-08 12:45:00 by Associated Press in Wired Security
 
There aren't many people who can tell the president of the United States what to do, but Barack Obama acknowledges that he is still in "a scuffle" with the Secret Service (and his lawyers) over his beloved Blackberry, which they say he must give up. The president-elect hasn't used the "cold, dead hands" defense yet -- but it ain't over until...
 
Tags: barack obama acknowledges, blackberry, secret service, dead hands, president, president-elect, cold, lawyers, defense