You know them from a security incident follow up meeting, a security audit exit meeting or a vendor prensentation: excuses for not caring about security the right way. You can now choose your excuse from
Lance Mueller published a good article about bypassing a Windows login password with forensic tools . You can use his instructions if you plan to boot an Windows image within a virtual machine and like to login.
Cool stuff from Princeton researchers. They published a paper “Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys” and showed that whole disk encryption can be defeated by relatively simple methods. They demonstrated their methods by using them to defeat three disk encryption products: BitLocker,