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...

CVE-2017-18314

In Snapdragon Automobile, Mobile, Wear in version MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 810, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SDA660,...

Code injection

In Snapdragon Automobile, Mobile, Wear in version MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 810, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SDA660,...

CVE-2017-18314

CVE-2017-18314 affects Qualcomm closed‑source components. The entry notes that on TZ cold boot the CNOC_QDSS RG0, which is locked by xBL_SEC, is cleared by TZ. This is categorized as a Critical issue in the Qualcomm closed‑source component list and is referenced in Android/industry bulletins. The...

CVE-2017-18314

In Snapdragon Automobile, Mobile, Wear in version MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 810, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SDA660,...

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...

CVE-2017-18314

In Snapdragon Automobile, Mobile, Wear in version MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 810, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SDA660,...

Siemens SIMATIC S7-300 CPU Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Siemens SIMATIC S7-300 CPU is a modular general-purpose controller from Siemens for the manufacturing industry. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Siemens SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family of devices. By exploiting the vulnerability, an attacker can launch a denial-of-service attack unde...

Moxa EDR-G903 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Moxa EDR-G903 is a suite of Moxa's all-in-one firewall/VPN security router products. A security vulnerability exists in Moxa EDR-G903 V3.4.11 and earlier versions. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious request to cause a denial of service cold boot...

Researchers grab cryptographic keys from Frozen Android Phones

Using a new attack on most popular Android phones platform, a team of researchers in Germany managed to grab stored cryptographic keys if the device is frozen state for an hour. The method which able to bypasses Google's data scrambling encryption system introduced in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwi...

Researchers grab cryptographic keys from Frozen Android Phones

Using a new attack on most popular Android phones platform, a team of researchers in Germany managed to grab stored cryptographic keys if the device is frozen state for an hour. The method which able to bypasses Google’s data scrambling encryption system introduced in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwi...

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...