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Cold Boot Attacks Against Disk Encryption

2008-02-21 13:29:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...contents are lost when you turn off the power. But this isnt so. Our research shows that data in DRAM actually fades out gradually over a period of seconds to minutes, enabling an attacker to read the full contents of memory by cutting power and then rebooting into a malicious operating system Interestingly, if you cool the DRAM chips, for...
 
Tags: main memory chips, memory, todays dram memories, dram, dram contents, memory contents, disk encryption, hard, hard disk contents
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...contents of the email To demonstrate, let's say that I am sending my online bank password to my wife via email, to her Google email account, Gmail (a no-no, but a demo nonetheless). My network administrator, my email administrator, various engineers at our internet service provider (ISP), various engineers at other internet service providers...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Difference Between of Adware, Spyware and Anti-virus

2007-04-18 04:24:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...contents as a particular application is being utilized. It is quite unfortunate that most of the adware programs take the form of spywares that is they track and report user information to program authors Some signs of spyware infections include pop-up ads that seem to be not related to the site you are viewing. More often than not, spyware...
 
Tags: virus, spyware, computer virus share, adware, anti-virus, computer, spyware author, computer system, system
 
 
 
 
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Cold Boot Attacks on Windows Vista BitLocker Encryption Keys

2008-02-22 17:00:07 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist
 
Tags: modern computers retain, contents persist, contents, drams, popular assumption, contrary, minutes, temperatures, reliable
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...contents of RAM and extract the encryption passwords kept in clear text. The research concludes that almost all disk encryption products have the same fundamental flaw that enables anyone, without custom-built and expensive resources, to gain access to the system. Rich Mogull has a good blog on how one should think through the ramifications ...
 
Tags: approach, happy approach, disk encryption products, disk encryption, complexity approach, bitarmor, disk encryption technologies, researchers, princeton researchers
 
 
 
 
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Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs

2008-05-16 06:10:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of...
 
Tags: customs agent pokes, customs agent, british customs agents, customs agents, agent, customs, entire hard drive, hard drive, data
 
 
 
 
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Companies Admit To Reading Email

2008-05-23 14:40:05 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...contents of outbound email. In addition, twenty-two percent said they employ staff primarily or exclusively for this purpose There are several cases where someone has been terminated over the contents of email. Most are fired under a clause in the companys Internet Usage Policy. The debate is a huge one, with people expecting privacy when...
 
Tags: email, outbound email, email leak, employee email, people glance, people, non-spam email, access personal accounts, personal
 
 
 
 
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Successful 802.1X Every Time

2008-06-20 04:18:15 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...contents of this blog may save you hours of time and trouble Throughout the implementations Ive done, for both wired and wireless 802.1X, Ive developed a procedure for implementing and testing 802.1X each step of the way. Following these steps my seem to be tedious and unnecessarily time-consuming. But, if youre just starting with 802.1X, Im...
 
Tags: test radius, radius, radius log activity, test, radius client, test client, time, radius server, test switch
 
 
 
 
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Goodbye IE6

2006-10-17 15:01:13 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...contents at various places all over the display, rendering in the wrong font, leaving turds all over its window while scrolling. Once it starts I have to kill iexplore.exe to make it stop. I believe it is fully-patched In my mind the appearance of this problem is correlated with the appearance of two new aggressive JavaScript interfaces: The...
 
Tags: xpsp sp2 gdr, window contents, window, aggressive javascript interfaces, microsoft internet explorer, firefox andor ie7, bloglines feed selector, memory corruption, render correctly
 
 
 
 
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Fatal wine waiters

2007-12-20 18:59:04 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...contents of which almost makes sense In October 2002, one of the first known hand baggage of phase wine waiter knock about resulted in troubles for a mess wine waiter at Trinity College, Dublin for doubtless a fine old university has wine waiters to spare, and a mess for them to work in Opinions around here differ as to whether this is...