Reinventing the Cold Boot Attack: A Modern Approach for Laptops

Should your laptop ever get stolen and fall into the wrong hands, you would probably be comfortable in the knowledge that the data on it is protected by full disk encryption. But what if a malicious adversary could get around that encryption and access the data anyway? F-Secure's Olle Segerdahl and Pasi Saarinen have discovered a flaw that allows attackers to do just that, and it affects almost all modern corporate laptops - probably yours too. Olle and Pasi join us today to talk about bypassing the mitigations vendors have put in place against cold boot attacks, and what companies can do to mitigate the risk.

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The Chilling Reality of Cold Boot Attacks