Researcher To Demonstrate Attack Code for Intel Chips

[Osiris]

Security researcher Kris Kaspersky says he has plans to demonstrate how an attacker can exploit a flaw in Intel processors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.

Kaspersky will demonstrate how such an attack can be made in a presentation at the upcoming Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during October. The proof-of-concept attacks will show how processor bugs, called errata, can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler.

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[Silverlord]

This sounds very interesting, i can imagine the spam message though,

'Your hardware is at risk but this new dongle for your serial port to protect you now'

Ahh the good old days when security dongles were needed