What happens when Windows goes to sleep?
Hi, This may be the stupidest question ever asked here but I would like to know. When you put Windows laptop to sleep, does that automatically prevent someone from accessing it via WIFI? If you are not going to use it overnight, should you disable the WIFI for security reasons? Thanks
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If the RAM (Memory) is secure, then unlikely an attacker could do this. But in any event the attacker must have physical access to the machine.
By the way, you can test this: Turn your wireless OFF and then see if you can access your machine. You cannot.
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Many thanks
You are very welcome and good luck with suspending the machine.
Yes need to turn off wifi
Is suspend is working properly (usually does), then that will turn Wireless off as well.
Yes for sleep it should turn it off and to make sure can also check "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power", which default is checked already.
When sleeping the state if machine is stored in RAM as compared to hibernate which stores the state in the HDD. The former is susceptible to case where RAM card is removed physically to siphon secret and keys from the RAM. There is past attack proof on this called cold boot attack. Advised to use hibernate instead and with your BitLocker turned on.