New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency To Spy On Users' Web Activities

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By BeauHDJul 5, 2024, 8:02 pm322 ptsTop
Longtime Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov shares a report from The Hacker News: A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user's web activity. "SnailLoad exploits a bottleneck…

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