Posts Tagged ‘Spectre’
Failure of Imagination
01Jun18
The Spectre and Meltdown bugs have been billed as a ‘failure of imagination’, where the hardware designers simply didn’t conceive of the possibility that a performance optimisation might lead to a security vulnerability. I personally find this a little hard to swallow. The very first time I came across side-channel attacks the first thing I though […]
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Tags: adversarial techniques, AI, ARM, chicken bits, failure, imagination, Intel, Meltdown, red team, security, side-channel, Spectre
This is a follow up to ‘Meltdown and Spectre: What They Are and How to Deal with Them‘ taking a deeper look at: the characteristics of the vulnerability and potential attacks, why its necessary to patch cloud virtual machines even though the cloud service providers have already applied patches, the nature of the performance impact […]
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Tags: Meltdown, Spectre