Researchers from four American universities have developed a new GPU side-channel attack that leverages data compression to leak sensitive visual data from modern graphics cards when visiting web pages.

So basically what’s on the monitor isn’t even safe anymore. If I were a security researcher in charge of protecting a high profile client I would feel so discouraged right now…

    • Draconic NEO
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      1 year ago

      I would say it’s likely that it affects Chromium as a whole, what affects chrome usually also affects chromium as well, and while some modified versions might be unaffected it’s likely that most are.