News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits. Parent comment

Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by halflings on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:06PM (#16074083)
From [1]:

> We reported this issue to Intel, AMD and ARM on 2017-06-01.

I don't think they have been twidling their thumbs with such a huge discovery without informing constructors.

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by mort96 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:34PM (#16074284)
We know (or can guess) approximately when the project zero team discovered the issue, but I think your parent comment meant that we don't know when _someone_ discovered it first. Maybe the project zero team were the very first to discover it, or maybe some state actor discovered it a decade ago and has been using it since then.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by bri3d on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:25PM (#16074230)
Right - but as always with a vulnerability, especially one that's borderline-undetectable through any kind of log analysis, the question becomes "were Google really the first to think of this?" and the tinfoil kingdom builds itself from there.
[ Parent | on HN ]