bugtraq - RE: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

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Message-ID: <0273B67044957C41BD71D12EBA2E00AE252F3E@becca.LarrySeltzer.local>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:03:09 -0500
From: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry@...ryseltzer.com>
To: "Tim" <tim-security@...tinelchicken.org>
Cc: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>, <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

>>The funniest is using hibernate...
>>Did you perchance read: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/02/21-0
?? 

Yeah, I made specific reference to that attack in my message. There's a
big difference between sleep mode and hibernate mode. In hibernate the
system is powered off. Even if the memory has some residual charge I'm
sure it's far less reliable than with sleep. 

Everything I've seen in descriptions of that attack tells me they are
unfairly conflating sleep and hibernate.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer@...fdavisenterprise.com