13th March 2018 resources updates

(1) New section on Trend Micro Resources in Meltdown/Spectre – Related Resources

Trend Micro: Detecting Attacks that Exploit Meltdown and Spectre with Performance Counters
“We worked on a detection technique for attacks that exploit Meltdown and Spectre by utilizing performance counters available in Intel processors. They measure cache misses — the state where data that an application requests for processing is not found in the cache memory — that can be used to detect attacks that exploit Meltdown and Spectre.”

(2) Cryptocurrency/Crypto-mining News and Resources

• Tomáš Foltýn for ESET: Cryptocurrency exchange announces bounty on hackers
  “Binance is offering a $250,000 USD equivalent bounty to anyone who supplies information that leads to the legal arrest of the hackers involved in the attempted hacking incident on Binance on March 7^th, 2018,”
• Sophos: Cryptomining isn’t going to make you rich
  “…a new calculation based on a real-world case study has suggested a more surprising problem – cryptomining might not be profitable enough in the first place.”
• Microsoft: Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

David Harley

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