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The cat is out of the bag, Intel microprocessors (and others) are due to have patches applied over the next few days to offset a supposed 'potential exploit' of the kernal process by external methods.
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-you-need.html
Whilst the measures are to be rolled out on microprocessors dating back as 1995, giving any nefarious hacker up to 27 years to do the deed, there is no information I can see that suggests similar procedures will, or can be pushed onto bespoke, one time programmable chipsets (ASICs), where a slightly different, but equally damaging design flaw was confirmed around two years ago.
Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-you-need.html
Whilst the measures are to be rolled out on microprocessors dating back as 1995, giving any nefarious hacker up to 27 years to do the deed, there is no information I can see that suggests similar procedures will, or can be pushed onto bespoke, one time programmable chipsets (ASICs), where a slightly different, but equally damaging design flaw was confirmed around two years ago.
Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness
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