Straight from horse’s mouth-Spectre and Meltdown: Data leaks during speculative execution | J. Horn (Google Project Zero)
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data.
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How a 22-Year-Old Discovered the Worst Chip Flaws in History
In 2013, a teenager named Jann Horn attended a reception in Berlin hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel. He and 64 other young Germans had done well in a government-run competition designed to encourage students to pursue scientific research. In Horn’s case, it worked. Last summer, as a...
Meltdown and Spectre-Vulnerabilities in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data
Meltdown and Spectre work on personal computers, mobile devices, and in the cloud. Depending on the cloud provider’s infrastructure, it might be possible to steal data from other customers. Meltdown Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. This attack allows a program...
The technology behind Bitcoin-Cryptocurrency
When Bitcoin was unleashed on the world, it filled a specific need. But it wasn’t long before people realized the technology behind Bitcoin—the blockchain—could do much more than record monetary transactions. That realization has lately blossomed into a dazzling and often bewildering array of startup companies, initiatives, corporate alliances,...
IEEE Spectrum’s Most Popular Stories of 2017
In 2017, IEEE Spectrum published more than 1,000 feature and news stories about technology. Here, we resurface our most popular posts of the year. If you missed them the first time around, we hope you’ll enjoy this chance to look back and discover new stories or revisit a favorite. 1. In...
An Artificially Intelligent World – Yuval Harari
Yuval Harari’s recent work looks at the consequences of a futuristic biotechnological world where sentient biological organisms are surpassed by their own creations; he has said “Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so”.
Ode to joy-x’mas and new year special from quest forum
We the questers always believed in Phoenix and rekindling of human spirit in spite of temporary set backs/tribulations/ calamities whatever name you want to call.End of the year even though it does not mean much it is a good reference point to introspect and rekindle the spirits,We...
Some random things-Peek into past-Quest foundation day special
A glimpse of the activities of the quest forum and other activities organized by quest members.It was started in 2010 with two members B.Prasad and Abimanu Chawla(Project Trainee from VIT).The latter coined the name and designed the logo of the forum.Flesh to the forum was added by Mr.Narveer...
