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Vulnerabilities
Researchers Sneak Past Spectre v2 by Slipping Between the Kernel's Own Defenses
MIT CSAIL's 'Interrupt Injection' technique re-poisons the branch predictor in the tiny window after the CPU cleans it and before Linux uses it.
4 min read

Threat Intelligence
TrojPix: Academic Research Shows Air-Gapped PCs Can Leak Data Through Screen Pixels
Researchers at Shandong University describe a covert channel that turns a monitor cable into a radio transmitter, but the technique still needs malware on the target first.
3 min read

Threat Intelligence
FROST: A Browser-Only Side Channel That Reads Your SSD to Guess What You're Doing
Graz University researchers show that JavaScript timing alone can fingerprint websites and applications by measuring contention on a victim's solid-state drive.
3 min read