PHYSICAL SECURITY ATTACKS ON WINDOWS VISTA

There are several attacks known today which leverage physical access to fully patched systems
to read or patch system memory. One of them is the Cold Boot Attack (1), which allows copying
the system memory after the system has been powered off and extracting the keys of encrypted
harddisks from it. Another technique known for years now is the copying and manipulation of
memory using firewire which, among other things, also can be used to retrieve encryption keys.


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