New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave

Re:New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own dat... by Twirrim on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:56PM (#22538996)

Part of this is just that eyes are suddenly focussed on it. It's a repeated pattern in the tech industry.

Several years ago it felt like we barely went a week between Flash vulnerabilities.

Then someone found a major vulnerability in the JVM, and that became the centre of attention, and it felt like we were having to patch the JVM every single month.

Then something else came along and all eyes got focussed on that... rinse, repeat.

Right now the CPU is becoming a focus. We've probably got another couple of years of this before it'll settle down.

CPU is interesting because it's a lot harder to exploit, it's much less by way of finding low hanging fruit, unlike Flash and JVM.

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Re:New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own dat... by fl0wenol on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:31PM (#22540565)

It's because normalization of "cloud" brought into clear focus you're running your business critical code on other people's computers, along with other customers' code.

And now that code can adversarial effect you?

That's why it became such a hot topic.

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