...This is
attributed to the fact that he/she possesses the root
privilege to do so and forms an attack. A cold boot
attack can easily be lauched amongst other attacks by the privilege user or system administrator.A simple attack scenario could be that a customer pays a virtual machine at Amazon EC2 (Provider) and the systemadmin (Privilidged User) who is, for instance, threatened to be fired, has access to the same virtual machine state, this priviledged user can easily leak customer’s data. ...