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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre and Meltdown summary
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:21:13
Message-Id: CAC=wYCGypL8ZyZah+CBGCjCsKkCNSS=13MafU73KnMp+XcPA2g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Spectre and Meltdown summary by Adam Carter
1 Browser stuff
2
3 I'm guessing this relates to Variant1;
4 @hackerfantastic "Blackhats will be weaponizing spectre to steal session
5 cookies from additional websites opened in the browser, especially
6 financial sites. Enable site isolation in Chrome now.
7 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7623121?hl=en-GB"
8
9 Sounds like Mozilla will make some changes in Firefox 57 to make the
10 attacks more difficult;
11 "Our internal experiments confirm that it is possible to use similar
12 techniques from Web content to read private information"
13 https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre and Meltdown summary "Andrey F." <ma3oxuct@×××××.com>