{"id":22771,"date":"2018-09-14T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22771"},"modified":"2018-09-14T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:18:53","slug":"security-flaw-in-nearly-all-modern-pcs-and-macs-exposes-encrypted-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/14\/security-flaw-in-nearly-all-modern-pcs-and-macs-exposes-encrypted-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Flaw in &ldquo;Nearly All&rdquo; Modern PCs and Macs Exposes Encrypted Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/09\/12\/security-flaw-in-nearly-all-modern-pcs-and-macs-leaks-encrypted-data\/\">Zack Whittaker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/09\/12\/security-flaw-in-nearly-all-modern-pcs-and-macs-leaks-encrypted-data\/\">\n<p>Modern computers overwrite their memory when a device is powered down to scramble the data from being read. But Segerdahl and his colleague Pasi Saarinen found a way to disable the overwriting process, making a cold boot attack possible again.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s no secret that if you have physical access to a computer, the chances of someone stealing your data is usually greater. That&rsquo;s why so many use disk encryption &mdash; like BitLocker for Windows and FileVault for Macs &mdash; to scramble and protect data when a device is turned off.<\/p>\n<p>But the researchers found that in nearly all cases they can still steal data protected by BitLocker and FileVault regardless.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, it sounds like the newer Macs with T2 chips are not vulnerable because the key doesn&rsquo;t leave the Secure Enclave.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack Whittaker: Modern computers overwrite their memory when a device is powered down to scramble the data from being read. But Segerdahl and his colleague Pasi Saarinen found a way to disable the overwriting process, making a cold boot attack possible again. [&#8230;] It&rsquo;s no secret that if you have physical access to a computer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-09-14T19:18:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"a261cc75-fd3d-4908-9921-ddd6c52bda35","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-09-14T19:18:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AomHMdf09SQiZId3WxSvaNQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1607,131,706,30,1529,355,1679,48,219],"class_list":["post-22771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple-t2","tag-bug","tag-filevault","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-privacy","tag-secure-enclave","tag-security","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22772,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions\/22772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}