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GPU side channel attacks can enable spying on web activity, password stealing

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Nov 6, 2018

Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a computer’s graphics processing unit, or GPU, to spy on web activity, steal passwords, and break into cloud-based applications.

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