(http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1492)
Anybody going to the conference in Malaysia? Since the attack is based on CPU bugs, I guess this means you can't use a VM environment to guard against it. ===== July 14th, 2008 Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 9:32 pm Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting his research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia. If his proof of concept code consisting of JavaScript or TCP/IP packet attacks on Intel based machines succeeds, given Intel's dominant market share on the market the potential outbreak could be enormous since as he claims, the PoC is OS independent, namely all operating systems running Intel chips are said to be vulnerable [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
