New Cold Boot Attack Unlocks Disk Encryption On Nearly All Modern PCs

Security researchers have revealed a new attack to steal passwords, encryption keys and other sensitive information stored on most modern computers, even those with full disk encryption. The attack is a new variation of a traditionalCold Boot Attack , which is around since 2008 and lets attackers...

Design/Logic Flaw

Incorrect policy enforcement in system firmware for Intel NUC7i3BNK, NUC7i3BNH, NUC7i5BNK, NUC7i5BNH, NUC7i7BNH versions BN0049 and below allows attackers with local or physical access to bypass enforcement of integrity protections via manipulation of firmware storage...

CVE-2017-5722

Incorrect policy enforcement in system firmware for Intel NUC7i3BNK, NUC7i3BNH, NUC7i5BNK, NUC7i5BNH, NUC7i7BNH versions BN0049 and below allows attackers with local or physical access to bypass enforcement of integrity protections via manipulation of firmware storage...

CVE-2016-4500

Moxa UC-7408 LX-Plus devices allow remote authenticated users to write to the firmware, and consequently render a device unusable, by leveraging root access...

BadUSB Vulnerabilities in ICS Gear

CANCUN – BadUSB was the hot hack of the summer of 2014. Noted researcher Karsten Nohl delivered a talk at Black Hat during which he explained how USB controller chips in peripheral devices that connect over USB can be reprogrammed. The result is a completely compromised device hosting undetectabl...

BadUSB Attack Code Publicly Disclosed

Rarely in security is anything an absolute, but in the case of the BadUSB research that emerged during this year’s Black Hat conference, phrases such as “completely compromised” and “undetectable” paint a grim picture for the security of devices that communicate over USB. Over the weekend, the...