Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have revealed today vulnerabilities in some solid-state drives (SSDs) that allow an attacker to bypass the disk encryption feature and access the local data without knowing the user-chosen disk encryption password.
The vulnerabilities only affect SSD models that support hardware-based encryption, where the disk encryption operations are carried out via a local built-in chip, separate from the main CPU.
But in a new academic paper published today, two Radboud researchers, Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel, say they’ve identified vulnerabilities in the firmware of SEDs.
The only way users would be safe was if they either changed the master password or if they ‘d configure the SED’s Master Password Capability setting to “Maximum,” which effectively disables it.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/self-encrypting-ssd-hacking.html
Hi Haitao, interesting article, I like the author gives out what should do for example, rather than relying on BitLocker, you can use the open-source VeraCrypt tool to encrypt your Windows system hard drive or any other drive. VeraCrypt is based on the TrueCrypt software and handles the encryption process by its own without relying on SSD.