Another attack would be to flip bits in code pages... That the attackers illustr... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		willvarfar on Sept 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New cloud attack takes full control of virtual mac... Another attack would be to flip bits in code pages... That the attackers illustrated it by changing public keys so they could push updates or ssh into a box doesn't mean that's all the ways they could have compromised. You can't say "I don't use SSH so I'm safe!" or anything like that.

shshhdhs on Sept 2, 2016 [2 more]

[flagged]

progval on Sept 2, 2016 | [–]

The code of running processes is loaded into memory. Flipping bits in the memory can potentially modify the code.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact