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A Tiny Gap in Chips Leaves Data At Risk

The Brief

  • Daniel Trujillo and Mengjia Yan of MIT CSAIL explain a processor security vulnerability they call TONTOU (Time Of Neutralization, Time Of Use).
  • The description links a CSAIL news article, a USENIX Security paper, and an AMD product security bulletin (AMD-SB-7061).

Why watch · It describes a newly named processor security vulnerability that reportedly gets past existing defenses, relevant to anyone interested in chip-level data security.

  • Processor security
  • TONTOU
  • AMD

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Daniel Trujillo and Mengjia Yan of MIT CSAIL explain a processor security vulnerability they call TONTOU: Time Of Neutralization, Time Of Use. CSAIL News: https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/new-attack-slips-past-latest-defenses-built-your-computers-processor Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity26-trujillo.pdf AMD Press Release: https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7061.html USENIX Award: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/sec26_runners_up.pdf Director: Rachel Gordon Producer: Tim Malieckal Script Supervisor: Alex Shipps