{"id":123228,"date":"2018-01-31T23:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123228"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:11:14","slug":"mit-develops-new-way-to-fight-spectre-and-meltdown-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123228-mit-develops-new-way-to-fight-spectre-and-meltdown-attacks","title":{"rendered":"MIT develops new way to fight Spectre and Meltdown attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/news\/better-approach-preventing-meltdownspectre-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found a new way<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to protect processors against Spectre and Meltdown-related attacks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While Intel has released patches for these vulnerabilities, they can have an adverse effect on performance across a variety of applications.<\/p>\n<p>MIT\u2019s approach to defending against these attacks is named Dynamically Allocated Way Guard (DAWG), which splits the processor\u2019s onboard cache into multiple buckets with size that can vary over time.<\/p>\n<p>DAWG reportedly offers comparable performance to Intel\u2019s Cache Allocation Technology, while offering increased security against various attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said that DAWG requires minimal modifications to modern operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>The team is working to improve DAWG so that it can stop all currently known speculative-execution attacks, and said they hope Intel will be interested in adopting the idea to minimise the chance of future breaches.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123220-big-turnout-for-rage-2018-but-attendance-down-overall.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big turnout for rAge 2018 \u2013 but attendance down overall<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has\u00a0found a new way\u00a0to protect processors against Spectre and Meltdown-related attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":123221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1727,6318,1461],"class_list":["post-123228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-intel","tag-mit","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123229,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123228\/revisions\/123229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}