In this world of virtualized servers, exploits are becoming more controlled and prevalent
An interesting article written by Dan Goodin of Arstechnica discusses a new variation of the Rowhammer exploit, I love these names, called Flip Feng Shui. It works with memory deduplication techniques that is used by many cloud hosting services to save memory resources by sharing identical chunks of data used by two or more virtual machines.
Flip Feng Shui manipulates the physical memory that is being used by in such a way that crypto keys and other data known to be stored in area that can be susceptible to the Rowhammer exploit.
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