Article 3YRS7 You'll never guess what you can do once you steal a laptop, reflash the BIOS, and reboot it

You'll never guess what you can do once you steal a laptop, reflash the BIOS, and reboot it

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Story ImageHardware hackers bring cold boot attacks out of the deep freeze

Video If you can steal someone's laptop, leave it switched on in sleep mode, crack it open, hook up some electronics to alter settings in the BIOS firmware, restart it, and boot into a custom program... you can swipe crypto keys and other secrets from the system."

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