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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."

2 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Speculative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Give it up fanboy. It's just BSD, boo hooo.

  2. NOES, DUNT WERK UN TEH LUNIX!11!!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Noes, dis dunt werk un teh lunix, cuz teh lunix not half eny flawz. Unliek teh Wind0ze, LOLz!!!11!1

    Teh Lunix iz teh flauless n prefect modle uf teh prefect flaulussnuss!!11! It maed bi teh hand of teh god hisself, teh ulmitey Lunis!11!!! Teh Lunis wil pretect us!!11!!

    Teh Kisperski is teh MiKKKr0$$$loth slave drone troll. He do teh biding uf teh Wind0ze, cuz evryone kno teh Lunix half kno flaus.

    Thx four teh MiKKKr0$$$l0th prupeleragunda, lier.