more on Spectre/Meltdown

Excellent work by one of our student teams:
Probably now the fastest microarchitectural covert channel (Flush+Reload): https://t.co/IFdNA6OW6h
3.56MByte/s and 0 errors over 160MB transmitted random data.

Imagine #Meltdown and #Spectre attacks using that implementation 😉#tugraz

— Daniel Gruss (@lavados) May 3, 2018

SpectreNG speculations¹ are rife.

The “VM escape” one is, arguably, the most fun to consider given the slight dependence on cloudy clouds.

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¹ https://t.co/5kMqaBN3Oi [German]

— Arrigo Triulzi (@cynicalsecurity) May 3, 2018

“Incidentally, Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), which aim to protect sensitive data on cloud servers, are also not Specter-Safe ¹.” ²

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¹ https://t.co/OYeiaJaxKi [German]
² https://t.co/5kMqaBN3Oi

— Arrigo Triulzi (@cynicalsecurity) May 3, 2018

Really nice article from @a_greenberg covering our project @c_giuffrida @herbertbos @gober @vu5ec https://t.co/e8BfmRqfA5

— Pietro Frigo (@pit_frg) May 3, 2018

Dutch researchers have shown for the first time that Rowhammer, a technique that induces targeted electric charge leaks in computer memory, can be used to hack Android phones over the internet. https://t.co/BuYxGhGsFI

— Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) (@a_greenberg) May 3, 2018