On Fri, 09 May 2014, Артур Истомин wrote: > really working exploits, viruses or even prototypes that exploits bugs > in CPUs (but attempts were, google "Kris Kaspersky Intel Blackhat". Very > suspicious story. The presentation was withdrawn at the request of Intel).
One can find the reduced presentation on youtube, both in english and the original russian. As far as I can tell (I am not a native speaker of either language, and I found it very hard to understand the realtime translation), what he describes is the exploitation by malware of the very errata the microcode updates exist to fix. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140512005039.ga20...@khazad-dum.debian.net
