There's a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses
When I read about these kind of things I am reminded of this James Mickens quote"Unfortunately, large swaths of the security community are
fixated on avant garde horrors such as the fact that, during
solar eclipses, pacemakers can be remotely controlled with a
garage door opener and a Pringles can. It’s definitely unfor-
tunate that Pringles cans are the gateway to an obscure set
of Sith-like powers that can be used against the 0.002% of
the population that has both a pacemaker and bitter enemies
in the electronics hobbyist community. However, if someone
is motivated enough to kill you by focusing electromagnetic
energy through a Pringles can, you probably did something to
deserve that. I am not saying that I want you dead, but I am
saying that you may have to die so that researchers who study
per-photon HMACs for pacemaker transmitters can instead
work on making it easier for people to generate good passwords."I feel like the same thing applies when we are talking about these kind of attacks. I mean right now the latest version of express currently has a dependency on a library that has a known RCE. I mean listen 99% of us work in a company where if someone wanted to steal our information they'd pay the janitor $500 to grab it on his way out. Is this really a huge priority?