Use BitLocker, DMCrypt, FileVault or Truecrypt? Think you're protected?

[Burnsy2023]

This is a rather worrying, but also highly interesting method of breaking the vast majority of commonly used disk encryption programs in Vista, OSX and Linux: http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/

Makes you think twice about storing sensative data on physically unsecure machines.

Burnsy

 

[Burnsy2023]

It's more like a lesson on how to do it than a infomation session

You can't do it without the memory dumping software they use (bitunlocker) and they don't provide the source or binaries.

Burnsy

 

[Burnsy2023]

How many laptops are stolen while the laptop is still running? hardly any.

Not at all. How many people suspend or hibernate their machines rather then shutting them down? More importantly, how likely are the people that do this end up being the numpties losing sensative data?

Burnsy