'RAMBleed' Rowhammer Attack Can Now Steal Data, Not Just Alter It

' A team of academics from the US, Austria, and Australia, has
published new research today detailing yet another variation of the
Rowhammer attack. From a report:

The novelty in this new Rowhammer variety -- which the research team
has named RAMBleed -- is that it can be used to steal information from
a targeted device, as opposed to altering existing data or to elevate
an attacker's privileges, like all previous Rowhammer attacks, have
done in the past. [...] In a research paper [PDF] published today,
academics unveiled RAMBleed, the first Rowhammer attack that can
actively deduce and steal data from a RAM card. To do this,
researchers had to come up and combine different techniques, which,
when assembled, would permit a RAMBleed attack to take place.'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/06/11/1931214

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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