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Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine

Posted by michael on from the no-one-is-safe dept.

gillus writes "A very cool scientific paper from Appel and Govindavajhala that explains how virtual machines like java or .Net can be exploited. How? Quite simple, bomb your DRAM chip with X-rays... or more simply with 50-watt spotlight, as the authors demonstrate. Definitively worth a read!"

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  1. Re:This just in! by buffer-overflowed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't read the abstract, I'm currently quite inebriated at the moment and can't figure out how to under Linux.

    Somebody help me! Or start posting stuff in HTML or something everyone can read.

    Is that too much to ask!? Oh what a world what a world!

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  2. Cancer hackers? by SoVi3t · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not only can they hack my computer, but they can give me cancer as well now! When will those bastards ever stop???

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  3. Re:This just in! by Ex-MislTech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great the random grammar nazi's are at it again.

    Bon(e) Appetit ...

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