"Planting Ideas in a Computer's Head"
Researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered a new attack on AMD computer chips in which the attacker secretly plants an "idea" within the computer. It was possible to leak data from anywhere in the computer's memory using this attack. The team led by Kaveh Razavi, a professor in the Department of Information Technology and Engineering, demonstrated a serious flaw in certain Central Processing Units (CPUs) that allows an attacker to plant the equivalent of an idea in a victim's CPU, coax it into executing specific commands, and thus retrieve information. This article continues to discuss the research behind the new attack on AMD computer chips.
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