"New Technique Improves Effectiveness of Timing Channel Attacks"

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur have discovered a new technique called "DABANGG," which improves the effectiveness of timing channel attacks. A timing channel attack refers to the analysis of how long it takes for a targeted system to respond to various queries in order to discover vulnerabilities and extract private data. DABANGG increases the success of flush-based attacks such as Flush+Reload and Flush+Flush. DABANGG-enabled attacks present another challenge to the micro-architectural security community as these attacks have been significantly more precise, making flush-based attacks more feasible. According to the researchers, the DABANGG timing channel attack can be used against Intel and AMD processors, as well as non-Linux systems. This article continues to discuss how the new technique DABANGG improves the effectiveness of flush-based attacks.

Security Week reports "New Technique Improves Effectiveness of Timing Channel Attacks"