{"id":280687,"date":"2018-10-19T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T06:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=280687"},"modified":"2018-10-19T08:59:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T06:59:02","slug":"mit-develops-new-way-to-fight-spectre-and-meltdown-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/280687-mit-develops-new-way-to-fight-spectre-and-meltdown-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"MIT develops new way to fight Spectre and Meltdown attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/news\/better-approach-preventing-meltdownspectre-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found a new way<\/a><\/strong> to protect processors against Spectre and Meltdown-related attacks.<\/p>\n<p>While Intel has released patches for these vulnerabilities, they can have an adverse effect on performance across a variety of applications.<\/p>\n<p>MIT&#8217;s approach to defending against these attacks is named Dynamically Allocated Way Guard (DAWG), which splits the processor&#8217;s onboard cache into multiple buckets with size that can vary over time.<\/p>\n<p>DAWG reportedly offers comparable performance to Intel&#8217;s Cache Allocation Technology, while offering increased security against various attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said that DAWG requires minimal modifications to modern operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>The team is working to improve DAWG so that it can stop all currently known speculative-execution attacks, and said they hope Intel will be interested in adopting the idea to minimise the chance of future breaches.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/280073-intels-new-9th-gen-core-cpus-support-128gb-of-ram.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel\u2019s new 9th-gen Core CPUs support 128GB of RAM<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has found a new way to protect processors against Spectre and Meltdown-related attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":243488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[54739,48074,7699,48076],"class_list":["post-280687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-dawg","tag-meltdown","tag-mit","tag-spectre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280769,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280687\/revisions\/280769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}