Sacrificing Interoperability for Information Security: Containing Data Loss and Malware Propagation
Using hardware that does not provide software and data interoperability could address security problems.
Archive of posts tagged: Security
Speculating about speculation: on the (lack of) security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations
Spectre and Meltdown opened the Pandora box of a new class of speculative execution attacks that defeat standard memory protection mechanisms. These attacks are not theoretical, they pose a real and immediate security threat, and have been reportedly exploited by...
A Computer Architecture Solution to Fake News and Autonomous Car Accidents
Can principles for engineering robust computer systems used to build robust societies?
Reviewing System Security Papers
Works that describe defenses are often harder to publish than papers that demonstrate attacks. This blog post provides some insight on why this may be the case.
A Primer on the Meltdown & Spectre Hardware Security Design Flaws and their Important Implications
As previously reported in the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, two major hardware security design flaws—dubbed Meltdown and Spectre—were broadly revealed to the public in early January 2018. These flaws are described in detail by the discoverers in research...Subscribe
