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Password Cracking Windows Accounts

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20261957 views
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Problem

At work we have laptops with encrypted harddrives. Most developers here (on occasion I have been guilty of it too) leave their laptops in hibernate mode when they take them home at night. Obviously, Windows (i.e. there is a program running in the background which does it for windows) must have a me…

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Fix for: Password Cracking Windows Accounts

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Leaving the machine in hibernate is definately not secure, a vulnerabilty has been found where the RAM still contains the key for the bitlocker (and others) in the hibernating memory. There is already a proof of concept attack out there for this vul…

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