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Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the also-releasing-a-paint-by-number dept.

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."

3 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Heh... by sokoban · · Score: 0, Redundant

    At least I know I'm safe because I run... Oh, crap.

    Seeing that you post on Slashdot, I highly doubt that you run.

    Or that you get laid on a regular basis, for that matter.

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  2. Re:Heh... by Bugs42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Or that you get laid.

    There, fixed that for you.

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  3. Re:Reality check by the_B0fh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    To me it's pretty darn amazing that for 42 cents I can drop an envelop in a slot and a few days later it is hand-delivered to someone on the other side of the country. If that service didn't exist and you asked me to guess what it would cost, 42 cents would not be the answer.

    Where, oh where have we gone wrong, such that 42 is NOT the answer?!?!?!?!