Computer News 1: A security technique to fool would-be cyber attackers

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Multiple programs running on the same computer may not be able to directly access each other’s hidden information, but because they share the same memory hardware, their secrets could be stolen by a malicious program through a “memory timing side-channel attack.” This malicious program notices delays when it tries to access a computer’s memory, because the hardware is shared among all programs using the machine. It can then interpret those delays to obtain another program’s...

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