{"id":853,"date":"2015-03-10T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2015-03-10T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:32:00","slug":"cutting-edge-hack-gives-super-user-status-by-exploiting-dram-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/2015\/03\/10\/cutting-edge-hack-gives-super-user-status-by-exploiting-dram-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attack known as &#8220;Rowhammer&#8221; takes advantage of a flaw introduced by the laws of physics. Yep, you read\u00a0that right. By taking advantage of current leaks on current DDR3 memory, control can be gained over a system in a very short amount of time. Quite an impressive feat, mind you. The attack will not work against DDR3 ECC RAM or any variation of DDR4, but is still worrisome nevertheless. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2015\/03\/cutting-edge-hack-gives-super-user-status-by-exploiting-dram-weakness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go right onto the Ars Tehnica site and read more about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attack known as &#8220;Rowhammer&#8221; takes advantage of a flaw introduced by the laws of physics. Yep, you read\u00a0that right. By taking advantage of current leaks on current DDR3 memory, control can be gained over a system in a very&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/2015\/03\/10\/cutting-edge-hack-gives-super-user-status-by-exploiting-dram-weakness\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2GBDDR3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6E2xk-dL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}