A Tiny Gap in Chips Leaves Data At Risk

Daniel Trujillo and Mengjia Yan of MIT CSAIL explain a processor security vulnerability they call TONTOU: Time Of Neutralization, Time Of Use. CSAIL News: https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/new-attack-slips-past-latest-defenses-built-your-computers-processor Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity26-trujillo.pdf AMD Press Release: https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7061.html USENIX Award: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/sec26_runners_up.pdf Director: Rachel Gordon Producer: Tim Malieckal Script Supervisor: Alex Shipps