{"id":165070,"date":"2023-06-03T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/hot-pixels-attack-steals-data-through-cpu-readings"},"modified":"2023-06-03T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T17:26:17","slug":"hot-pixels-attack-steals-data-through-cpu-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/hot-pixels-attack-steals-data-through-cpu-readings","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hot pixels\u2019 attack steals data through CPU readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hot-pixels-attack-steals-data-through-cpu-readings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of security researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany has reported a new form of side-channel attack that capitalizes on power and speed management methods used by graphics processing units and systems on a chip (SoCs).<\/p>\n<p>The researchers demonstrated how they could steal <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/personal+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">personal information<\/a> by targeting data released by the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) mechanisms found on most modern chips.<\/p>\n<p>As manufacturers race to develop thinner and more energy-efficient devices, they must train their sights on constructing SoCs that balance power consumption, heat generation and processing speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of security researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany has reported a new form of side-channel attack that capitalizes on power and speed management methods used by graphics processing units and systems on a chip (SoCs). The researchers demonstrated how they could steal personal information by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}