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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 1036468" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>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.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-you-need.html" target="_blank">https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-you-need.html</a></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/cutting-edge-hack-gives-super-user-status-by-exploiting-dram-weakness/" target="_blank">Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 1036468, member: 175144"] 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. [URL]https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-you-need.html[/URL] 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. [URL="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/cutting-edge-hack-gives-super-user-status-by-exploiting-dram-weakness/"]Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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