Security researcher Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how processor bugs can be leveraged to remotely attack a computer with nothing more than JavaScript or TCP/IP packets. The scary thing here is that these attacks can succeed regardless of the operating system that the target computer is running. Scheduled to take place at the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference, to be held in Kuala Lumpur in October, the demonstration will take place against fully patched operating systems ranging from the various Windows variant to Linux and even BSD. In addition, Kaspersky noted that the possibility exists with the Mac OS as well.
To read up more on this new hardware specific attack vector:
- check out this InfoWorld article [1]
Links:
[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/14/Researcher_to_demonstrate_attack_code_for_Intel_chips_1.html