SSDs

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2021
How to implant a malware in hidden area of SSDs with Flex Capacity feature

Researchers devised a series of attacks against SSDs that could allow to implant malware in a location that is not monitored by security solutions. Korean researchers devised a series of attacks against solid-state drives (SSDs) that could allow to implant malware in specific memory locations bypassing security solutions. The attacks work against drives with flex […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2018
Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain

The encryption system implemented by popular solid-state drives (SSDs) is affected by critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a local attacker to decrypt data. The flaws were discovered by researchers Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel at Radboud University in the Netherlands, the duo discovered that it is possible to bypass password-based authentication to access to […]