snydeq writes "Kris Kaspersky will demonstrate how attackers can target flaws in Intel microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of OS. The demo will be presented at the Hack In The Box Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur in October and will show how processor bugs can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler. The demonstrated attack will be made against fully patched computers running a range of OSes, including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Linux, and BSD. An attack against a Mac is also a possibility." Link to Original Source
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Granted, we're not going to eliminate errata anytime soon, but putting this code out into the public will give Intel great incentive to get to work fixing it, otherwise it's going to hurt them big time. AMD is no stranger to this, either.
It's about time he went public with the code (Score:2)
Granted, we're not going to eliminate errata anytime soon, but putting this code out into the public will give Intel great incentive to get to work fixing it, otherwise it's going to hurt them big time. AMD is no stranger to this, either.