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Websites Are Using This FROST-Y New Technique to Spy on Users by Snooping on Their SSD Activity

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A new side-channel attack was discovered but exploiting it is not as easy as it sounds.

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Center

Another Way Browsers Can Spy on You: Listening to Your Hard Drive

Researchers show a browser attack that can infer open sites and apps.

17 hours ago·Bucharest, Romania

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Tech Radar

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Websites are using this FROST-y new technique to spy on users by snooping on their SSD activity

A new side-channel attack was discovered but exploiting it is not as easy as it sounds.

1 day ago·United Kingdom

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Espionage Through the Browser. Attackers Can Recognize Almost 89% of Open Sites Using SSD

Researchers at the Technical University of Graz (Austria) have discovered a new way of tracking. Malicious sites analyze the latency of solid state drives (SSDs) to find out about open applications.

11 hours ago·Ukraine

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PC Perspective

Websites Spying On You Via SSD Activity Should Receive a FROST-y Welcome

Websites love to spy on anyone who visits them, and are constantly coming up with new ways to do so as users find ways to block them. You might think this could…

15 hours ago

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Heise

How SSD Access Times Become a Digital Fingerprint

IT researchers have demonstrated "FROST" a side channel attack, in which browsers search information about user behavior over SSD access times.

16 hours ago·Germany

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dev.by

Websites Can Track Users Through SSD Activity

Researchers have described a new method of browser tracking: a website can analyze the latency of SSD drives and use it to determine which tabs or applications a user has open.

18 hours ago

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