New cold boot attack affects “nearly all modern computers”

Re:New cold boot attack affects “nearly all modern computers” by ryanlol on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:18AM (#17977980)

What’s the “new attack” here?

This seems like a rather standard cold boot attack.

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Re:New cold boot attack affects “nearly all modern computers” by jnurmine on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:34PM (#17982286)

They modify things to bypass the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) protection of overwriting the RAM when the power comes back, they also enable external booting, and: "Cold boot attacks can then be carried out by booting a special program off a USB stick."

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Re:New cold boot attack affects “nearly all modern computers” by smittywerben on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:41AM (#17978105)

I'm not in the security area, so I'm wondering the same.

From the article:

> like all previous cold boot attacks, their method requires physical access and a special tool to extract leftover RAM.

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Re:New cold boot attack affects “nearly all modern computers” by ryanlol on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:46AM (#17978130)

>But security researchers from Finnish cyber-security firm F-Secure discovered that they could disable this feature by modifying firmware settings and steal data from a computer's RAM after a cold reboot.

I guess this is supposed to be the "new" thing. This is really obvious though, so calling it a "new attack" seems a bit ridiculous.

The talk wasn't bad though.

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