Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine

Posted by michael on Saturday March 15, @03:03AM
from the no-one-is-safe dept.
gillus writes "A very cool scientific paper from Appel and Govindavajhala that explains how virtual machines like java or .Net can be exploited. How? Quite simple, bomb your DRAM chip with X-rays... or more simply with 50-watt spotlight, as the authors demonstrate. Definitively worth a read!"

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hmmm... interesting.....