Hyperthreading footprints expose Intel P4 users
News Hyperthreading, introduced in Intel's Pentium 4, could allow hackers to access secure information, according to Colin Percival, a 23 year old Ph.D student from Vancouver. Percival has developed a sophisticated attack based on timing, which exploits...
[May 16, 2005, 14:15]
Vendors 'slow to fix' hyperthreading flaw
News Colin Percival detailed the vulnerability - which affects versions of Intel's CPU that use a technology called hyperthreading - at a conference on 13 May. Given that I reported this problem in early March, I really think that they [Microsoft and...
[May 27, 2005, 9:30]
FreeBSD rushes out zero-day root patch
News Colin Percival, a FreeBSD security officer, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that the issue was serious, as exploit code was available on the internet. I consider all vulnerabilities to be serious if they can be exploited," Percival said in an email...
[December 1, 2009, 15:55]
