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From: "Andrey F." <ma3oxuct@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre and Meltdown summary
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 13:14:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD7sfFzdPWAKxqy6XwL7083C6Rx5RjBZNvpPQGpoQDXn+uvXmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=wYCGypL8ZyZah+CBGCjCsKkCNSS=13MafU73KnMp+XcPA2g@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the great summary! Having 2FA enabled for all accounts will
go a long way as well.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:21 AM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-04 21:15 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 ` [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
2018-01-04 21:14   ` Andrey F. [this message]
2018-01-06  0:30     ` Adam Carter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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