sidechannelattacks

Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability

| | Exploits, Hacking, hardware, Intel, keys, sidechannelattacks, Vulnerabilities
Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Back in early 2018, I wrote: Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, but they only affect the confidentiality of data. Now that they -- and the research ...
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Recovering Smartphone Typing from Microphone Sounds

| | academicpapers, cellphones, phones, pins, sidechannelattacks
Yet another side-channel attack on smartphones: "Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones," by Ilia Shumailov, Laurent Simon, Jeff Yan, and Ross Anderson. Abstract: We present the first acoustic ...
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Recovering Keyboard Inputs through Thermal Imaging

| | academicpapers, passwords, sidechannelattacks
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, are able to recover user passwords by way of thermal imaging. The tech is pretty straightforward, but it's interesting to think about the types of ...
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Another Branch Prediction Attack

| | academicpapers, hardware, Intel, security bloggers network, sidechannelattacks, Vulnerabilities
When Spectre and Meltdown were first announced earlier this year, pretty much everyone predicted that there would be many more attacks targeting branch prediction in microprocessors. Here's another one: In the new ...
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