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Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing … – Ars Technica


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Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing …
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Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola.

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Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing – Ars Technica


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Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing
Ars Technica
By adding the Drammer privilege-escalation exploit, an existing code-execution attack can access core parts of the operating system, rather than being confined only to a small section of it, as envisioned under the Android security model. In the second

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New computer-security vulnerability: Rowhammer Javascript exploit attacks … – ConsumerAffairs


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New computer-security vulnerability: Rowhammer Javascript exploit attacks
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One good thing about Rowhammer, from a computer-security perspective, is that even if a hacker did take advantage of an exploit, it's very hard to control. Basically (and this is an extreme oversimplification of how both DRAM chips and the Rowhammer …
Researchers develop astonishing Web-based attack on a computer's DRAMPCWorld

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