A short while back, researchers at Princeton University published a detailed research paper in which they discussed the process of recovering encryption keys out of computer memory (RAM) after a cold boot.
The researchers successfully recovered encryptions keys for popular disk encryption systems such as BitLocker, dm-crypt and developed new algorithms for finding such keys in [...]

Today Flash is the de-facto standard for developing interactive and rich web-based applications. It even comes installed on every new computer (it’s part of Windows XP installation). That’s what makes Flash applications a perfect target for client-side attacks.
So what exactly makes Flash a potential security threat? Its features. Flash applications can execute JavaScript when embedded [...]