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 ...

Reports of the death of cold-boot attacks have been greatly exaggerated. Cybersecurity wonks have long considered this a mostly solved problem, but new techniques have reanimated the decade-old ...

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 ...

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 ...