New FROST Attack Lets Websites Track What Sites and Apps You Open via SSD Timing

A malicious website can work out which sites you visit and which apps you open, using nothing but JavaScript and the timing of your SSD. The attack, called FROST , needs no native code, no extension, and no permission prompt. You open the page, leave the tab sitting there, and it watches the driv...

kernel: enforce a minimum SG_IO timeout

libata in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.9 does not set minimum timeouts for SGIO requests, which allows local users to cause a denial of service Programmed I/O mode on drives via multiple simultaneous invocations of an unspecified test program...