Mozilla peers into processes with student-built forensics probe

Student hackers from the University of Buenos Aires have developed with Mozilla an open-source forensics tool to analyse memory of running processes. Computer science quartet Marco Vanotti, Patricio Palladino, Nahuel Lascano, and Agustin Martinez Suñé are part of Masche Team, who are "highly motivated by coding, security and …

[ScarabMonkey]

Encryption software

This may have serious repercussions for disk encryption software that holds the key in memory...

[Caspy7]

Re: Encryption software

I know little about the topic. Do many disk encryption schemes hold the key in memory?

[John Brown (no body)]

You know...

...sometimes, the so-called "hero" image reminds me of films where the actor sits in front of a computer hammering on the keys while the screen scrolls the output of an MS-DOS debug dump command up the display whereupon s/he shouts, "I'm in! We got those terrorists now!"

No, if you have to explain what the image represents, you failed. That might work in an art gallery, but not when trying to illustrate a news story. Unless we need to probe deeper to figure it out.

[YARR]

I guess you must first compromise security in order to improve it. But how does this get around hardware memory protection?

[Michael Wojcik]

But how does this get around hardware memory protection?

The same way anything else does - by running with elevated privileges. No privilege, no memory scanning.

[elDog]

I wish Mozilla would spend some time for Firefox forensics

Like what tab is consuming so much CPU or memory.

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you, we will be integrating this to xkeyscore.