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LSS: Secure Boot

Posted Sep 14, 2012 14:04 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: LSS: Secure Boot by kugel
Parent article: LSS: Secure Boot

> Don't you need physical access to the machine to subvert the hibernation file?

No, a piece of malware can create a subverted hibernation file and force-reboot the machine.

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LSS: Secure Boot

Posted Sep 15, 2012 8:15 UTC (Sat) by kugel (subscriber, #70540) [Link]

Thanks. I have never seen this kind of attack

LSS: Secure Boot

Posted Sep 15, 2012 9:59 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

This attack only makes sense in secure-boot enhanced world. In any other world it's easier to just replace the kernel if you've reached the state where you can do raw disk access.