Intel hardware bug

Eric McCorkle eric at metricspace.net
Thu Jan 4 15:43:01 UTC 2018


On 01/04/2018 09:49, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net> writes:
>> Given enough skill, resources, and motivation, it's likely that an
>> attacker could craft a javascript-based version of the attack, then
>> every javascript website (aka all of them) is a potential attack vector.
> 
> Uh, this has already been demonstrated.  According to Google, Chrome 64
> (to be released in a few days) includes countermeasures against it.  I
> don't have any further details.

This does not surprise me at all.


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