Apple Chip Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Encryption Keys
Apple Chip Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Encryption Keys
www.zetter-zeroday.com Apple Chip Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Encryption Keys
A group of researchers has found a serious security vulnerability in Apple’s M-series of chips that would allow attackers to steal secret keys from Mac and iPad devices. The problem affects Apple M1, M2 and M3 chips — which have been used in Apple desktops, notebooks and tablets since late
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Direct link to the authors website which includes paper, video and code: https://gofetch.fail/
Cool stuff. Sucks that the prefetching process cannot be disabled on cryptographic operations with the M1 and M2 Macs.
I purchased an M1 and I don’t feel any appreciable slowdowns or need to upgrade to a newer computer. This kind of vulnerability skews that decision, and I’m not especially happy about it.