New Thunderbolt flaw lets hackers bypass security features in five minutes

[Andrew]

If your laptop somehow makes its way into hackers’ hands, will the login screen and hard disk encryption keep its contents safe? You might imagine so, but if it’s got a Thunderbolt port, you could be in trouble.

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As reported by Wired, Eindhoven University of Technology researcher Björn Ruytenberg has revealed a new attack he’s named Thunderspy, which can bypass the login screen of sleeping or locked Thunderbolt-enabled computers. It works on both Windows and Linux PCs manufactured before 2019 and can even bypass hard disk encryption.

 

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[NavJack27]

Wew! Physical accesses grants the ability to do anything... But I'm going to waste a bunch of time with the Thunderbolt port on this rig... Yeah...