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Re:Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by ... by badrabbit on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:52PM (#20631077)
It's more like in the 90s and 2000s software-exploit based attacks were fairly easy. These days you have to adopt and use logical,social and configuration vulnerabilities that have always been common as well.
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Re:Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by ... by tinco on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:29AM (#20632645)
Imagine the damage those ransomware people could have done back then.. Whole countries were open for disruption.
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Re:Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by ... by pjmlp on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:53AM (#20632986)
Given that Morris Worm is 30 years old and we keep using UNIX derived OSes, those ransomware people have plenty of opportunities still.
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Re:Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by ... by smhenderson on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:07PM (#20637249)
But surely there are a much smaller number of Unix computers running sendmail these days? And sendmail is a lot more secure now than it was 30 years ago. Doesn't seem like a fair comparison IMHO...
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Re:Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by ... by pjmlp on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:57PM (#20638972)
Enjoy the Google talks from Linux Kernel Summit 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfNt6MsLj0E&list=PLbzoR-pLrL...

68% of Linux kernel exploits in 2018 were caused by C's lack of features to handle memory corruption.

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