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Should enterprises worry about cold boot attacks?

Late last month, researchers at Princeton made headlines when they published a paper exposing weaknesses in PC encryption technologies. It seems that DRAMs retain resident data for several minutes after PCs are shut down. This vulnerability can lead to "cold boot attacks" that can expose any information stored in PC memory--including encryption keys. Using several different types of attacks, researchers were able to exploit this vulnerability to defeat several disk encryption systems including BitLocker (Microsoft Windows), FileVault (Apple Macintosh), and TrueCrypt (Open Source). Read more about this security research here. (PDF)

The Princeton report renewed a well-understood problem … Read more

Because not everyone is an SAT genius

We would never cheat on the SAT or any other exam, of course, but if we were of that ilk we might consider taking along one these gadgets and claiming that it's just a standard calculator.

The "Pocket Prep" SAT and ACT tutors from the Princeton Review may not have all the answers one would need, but it should come close if it's doing its job right. The handheld device, which has a black and white LCD, includes drills "to maximize grammar and essay scores anywhere, anytime."

It does have a calculator, by the … Read more