From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre and Meltdown summary
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 23:21:05 +1100 [thread overview]
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Browser stuff
I'm guessing this relates to Variant1;
@hackerfantastic "Blackhats will be weaponizing spectre to steal session
cookies from additional websites opened in the browser, especially
financial sites. Enable site isolation in Chrome now.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7623121?hl=en-GB"
Sounds like Mozilla will make some changes in Firefox 57 to make the
attacks more difficult;
"Our internal experiments confirm that it is possible to use similar
techniques from Web content to read private information"
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-04 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 11:50 [gentoo-user] Spectre and Meltdown summary Adam Carter
2018-01-04 12:21 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2018-01-04 21:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrey F.
2018-01-06 0:30 ` Adam Carter
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2018-01-07 18:08 [gentoo-user] linux-gazette masked: The total pollution of the output :) tuxic
2018-01-07 18:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-01-07 21:25 ` Marc Joliet
2018-01-07 21:53 ` Neil Bothwick
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