Heartbleed, bugs that should only have an impact on web software system turns out to be known also imposes one of the components of computer hardware, namely, memory. Researchers from Princeton University, the United States has recently discovered new problems.
The weakness caused by the attacks of Heartbleed occurred in the computer's cache memory system. The system itself, a place where data is stored, before sent for a while, processed or stored on a storage disk. One of the functions of cache for web users, allows users to store data files on the website user's browsing, and accommodated on history of the browser.
The outbreak of flaws on this memory cache, hackers can exploit attack heartbleed to read the contents of the cache of the target computer. From there, the hacker can see password and id that was used to log on to a target web services are important. Hacker attacks through wider than Heartbleed previous inventions related to the impact of the bug is.
"A lot of people have talked about the attack, but very few people have been talking about the solution. The Hardware could still divulge your secret key all the time. Every single piece of hardware that has a cache to cache channels terhdap are prone to leak it, "said Ruby Lee, Professor of engineering in the Department of electrical engineering, Princeton University, as quoted from the Computer World.
A number of hardware makers, especially in the sector of the chip also was responding to the discovery of Lee 's. Now they attempt to perform data encryption and secure key inside the chip a few important hardware, such as RAM, processor, and disk storage.
Originally, Heartbleed was only attacked the weakness in OpenSSL library, i.e. a system for secure data communication over the internet and networks. For example, if there is a website or server service is exposed to the attacks of Heartbleed, then the user account that is logged on to the website it could be stolen by hackers. This case could become more severe when the Heartbleed invade the e-banking services or email services company.
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