Some computer vendors encode passwords at the BIOS level. I couldn’t find any information about my BIOS, therefore I did a small test.I inserted another 1TB WD HDD and set a password, to check if I could unlock it with hdparm on another PC. I was lucky - the BIOS of my notebook ...
If a running PC was acquired with an authenticated session during the time the encrypted container is mounted, you may be able to dump the content of the computer’s RAM into a file and scan that file for on-the-fly encryption keys used in multiple encryption tool (BitLocker, TrueCrypt, ...
This attack, which I agree is an old one, seems like a pretty basic failing of computer hardware security that needs to be fixed before ANY software security matters much. Physically plugging a device into a machine shouldn’t give you complete access to the system. Is this the Star Wars ...
This means that if you runElcomsoft Phone Breaker 8.1on the computer that is already logged into the cloud (the suspect’s computer), then all you need is a password to the account. That will be it! No push notification to the trusted devices, no SMS codes, nothing. And if you ...
It doesn’t take that much development effort to own your internet facing computer, load particular code onto your USB stick, and then when you plug it into your airgapped machine, own that, and so forth. Please use caution. I think you’re better off just using a serial cable and ...
For many encrypted disks, extracting the encryption key directly from the device’s RAM, its page or hibernation file is the way to go. If live system analysis is performed while the encrypted container is mounted, one may be able to dump the content of the computer’s RAM into a file ...