BareMetal-RAM-Dumper

BareMetal RAM Dumper A simple x86 bare-metal tool designed to boot from a disk/USB and dump the system's RAM directly to the booting medium. It relies on BIOS interrupts to boot and perform disk operations, and enters unreal mode to access memory above the 1MB barrier. Background: Cold Boot Attac...

memguard

MemGuard Software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory. This package attempts to reduce the likelihood of sensitive data being exposed when in memory. It aims to support all major operating systems and is written in pure Go. Features Sensitive data is encrypted and authenticated...

Centry

Centry WARNING: THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE. IT IS LIKELY TO CONTAIN BUGS. Updates If you have already installed Centry, please run git pull to update to the latest version. The latest updates make it much more secure against replay attacks. Introduction Centry is a panic button intended to...

Moto E20 Readback Vulnerability

09/11/2022 Update: CVE ID CVE-2022-3917 has been reserved, with Lenovo to publish the Advisory Summary. TL;DR The Motorola E20 is an entry-level smartphone that uses a Unisoc system-on-chip. Motorola holds around 10% of the US smartphone market, though the sales of the E20 as a subset of that are...

Bug in NVIDIA’s Tegra Chipset Opens Door to Malicious Code Execution

A flaw impacting millions of mobile and internet of things IoT devices running NVIDIA’s Tegra processor opens the door for a variety of attacks, including device hijacking or siphoning of data. The warning comes from researcher Triszka Balázs, who discovered the flaw and asserts that the bug...

New Variants of Cold-Boot Attack

If someone has physical access to your locked -- but still running -- computer, they can probably break the hard drive's encryption. This is a "cold boot" attack, and one we thought solved. We have not: To carry out the attack, the F-Secure researchers first sought a way to defeat the the...

Researchers Heat Up Cold-Boot Attack That Works on All Laptops

A pair of researchers have developed an attack method that can bypass mitigations for cold-boot attacks on laptops. A physical attacker can compromise a laptop that’s in sleep mode, potentially lifting sensitive passwords, encryption keys and other information. The ramifications are, on the...

A Decade-Old Attack Can Break the Encryption of Most PCs

The computer industry thought cold boot hacks were solved 10 years ago. Researchers have proven that's not the case...

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 traditional Cold Boot Attack, which is around since 2008 and lets attackers...

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...

Research Outlines New Deep Freeze Data Recovery Technique on Android Phone

Hackers and data recovery specialists alike could soon be turning to a new technique that under the right conditions can allow for the harvesting of personal information from phones, even after they’ve been frozen. A group of German researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have...