Questions tagged [ram-data-recovery]

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Best strategy to recover running Macbook "modern" Pro ram

(Take a Macbook Pro 2017 Sierra 10.12.5 for example.) What I had done was I downloaded osxpmem-2.1.post4.zip (vouched by ponderthebits.com/.., itself by google.com/..), unzipped it with finder, created a folder Memory_Captures and: sudo chown -R…
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Is setting a firmware password on a Macbook enough to prevent cold boot attacks?

I have a Macbook configured with a firmware password required to boot from any media other than the built-in NVMe drive. In theory, this means without my password you can't boot from removable media. Is this enough to prevent cold boot attacks or…
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Non-obvious Mitigations for This DMA-Attack Demonstrated by F-Secure

Are there any non-obvious mitigations for the big DMA-attack revealed last year and demonstrated in this video by F-Secure? We know that Microsoft has published some material pertaining to DMA-attacks, but, from my reading of Microsoft's article, it…
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Interpreting this F-Secure Video of a DMA-Attack

I'm trying to interpret this video demonstration by F-Secure of the big cold-boot attack discovered last year. What is happening at the 50-second mark? Why does he insert the USB boot-device before doing whatever he does next? Was this…
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Volatility: Dumping memory associated with a particular process

I'm trying figure out how I can dump the memory associated with a process. So far, I've managed to identify the PID's of the processes I'm interested in (along with their offset). However, I can't pinpoint the exact Volatility plug-in/command I…