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...

Apple OS X Firmware Write-Protect Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Apple OS X is an Apple operating system. The Apple OS X firmware fails to properly write-protect the BIOS by entering and exiting sleep mode during the current session, and suffers from a local elevation of privilege vulnerability, which allows a local root user to write to the contents of the...