“The bad news is that if your computer is vulnerable, it’s a hardware issue, and there’s very little you personally can do about it. No software patches are coming to the rescue any time soon. The good news is that this hack is so complicated to pull off, you’re probably safe just from its level of difficulty alone.  So what exactly is Rowhammer.js? While it still needs to be tested further, the researchers claimed it is the ‘first remote software-induced hardware-fault attack’ in existence, written entirely in JavaScript. In other words, it’s scalable, powerful, takes more than a little luck to pull off, and if you understand how it works, it’s the most clever thing you’ll see all week.”

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/rowhammerjs-is-the-most-ingenious-hack-ive-ever-seen

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