Cold Boot Attack
Cold Boot Attack is a type of cyber attack that involves stealing sensitive information from a computer’s memory by accessing it after the computer has been shut down improperly or forcefully.
Imagine your computer is a house and its memory is a safe inside that house where you keep your valuable things. When you turn off your computer properly, the data inside the memory is removed like the safe being locked. But, if you turn off the computer forcefully, some data can still be left inside the memory like the safe being left open.
Hackers can use special tools to access the computer’s memory and steal this data. This data can include things like passwords, encryption keys, and other sensitive information that they can use to gain access to other parts of the computer or even other computers connected to the same network.
To protect against Cold Boot Attacks, you can use encryption software that will make the data inside the memory unusable even if a hacker gains access to it. It’s important to always shut down your computer properly to minimize the risk of this type of attack.