Security News > 2018 > November > GPU side channel attacks can enable spying on web activity, password stealing

Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a computer’s graphics processing unit, or GPU, to spy on web activity, steal passwords, and break into cloud-based applications. Threat scenarios Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering computer science doctoral student Hoda Naghibijouybari and post-doctoral researcher Ajaya Neupane, along with Associate Professor Zhiyun Qian and Professor Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, reverse engineered a Nvidia GPU to demonstrate … More → The post GPU side channel attacks can enable spying on web activity, password stealing appeared first on Help Net Security.

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