Side-Channel

SLAP/FLOP: Apple Silicon’s ‘Son of Spectre’ Critical Flaws
Richi Jennings | | Apple, apple bug, Apple Data Security, Apple Silicon, ARM, Arm CPU Attack, arm64, Daniel Genkin, FLOP, iPad, iPhone, Jalen Chuang, Jason Kim, Mac, SB Blogwatch, Side-Channel, side-channel attack, side-channel attacks, SLAP, Spectre, Spectre attack, Spectre variant, speculative execution, Yuval Yarom
Watch this: Want more “speculative execution” bugs? You’re gonna be in a great mood all day ...
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‘PrintListener’ Attack on Fingerprint Readers — Can You Trust Biometrics?🤞
Richi Jennings | | biometric, biometric authentication, biometric data, Biometric Data Abuse, biometric identification, biometric identity, biometric security, biometrics, biometrics authentication, Biometrics-Based Authentication, digital biometrics, digital fingerprint, Fingerprint Scanners, fingerprint scanning, Fingerprint Sensor Vulnerabilities, fingerprint sensors, fingerprints, PrintListener, SB Blogwatch, Side-Channel, side-channel attack, side-channel attacks, sidechannelattacks, touchless fingerprint
Mic Check: Researchers reconstruct your fingerprint by listening to you swipe ...
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New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability (CVE-2018-5407)
A new vulnerability being called PortSmash, (CVE-2018-5407) has been discovered impacting all CPUs that use a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) architecture. SMT is a technology that allows multiple computing threads to be executed ...
Smartphones that talk too much
David Harley | | Authentication, Motherboard, password stealing, passwords, pins, Side-Channel, SonarSnoop
In brief, the idea is that the phone's 'acoustic signature' can be used to determine the device users' password when they unlock the phone ...