Denying the Hacker access to your/our computers

[AZgl1800]

a solution to stopping hackers has been solved,

make the CPU change its' internal architecture every 2 or 3 milliseconds.


https://newatlas.com/computers/morpheus ... a-hackers/

[rene]

The just ten percent slower figure seems hard to believe since this would seem to imply flushing basically any form of microlevel cache also those few milliseconds --- but thanks for posting; interesting.

[Larry78723]

This doesn't apply to chips currently in use in our machines:

Engineers have designed a computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its microarchitecture every few milliseconds. Known as Morpheus, the puzzling processor has now aced its first major tests, repelling hundreds of professional hackers in a DARPA security challenge.

It could be 5 - 10 years before that technology is available in the consumer market although the U.S. government and its agencies will have it sooner. DARPA is the DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY.

[Dark Owl]

I think this addresses a different problem than defeating the typical computer virus.

Everything going on inside that chip is inside the chip. From the outside, it has to look like a conventional processor - so the bugs inherent in compilers (for example) which result in vulnerabilities due to (say) buffer overflows will still be there. I don't see how modifying the internal operation of a processor chip prevents a hacker finding their way through the usual holes in security layers supposed to prevent unauthorised access to data while allowing authorised access (the only 100% security is not to allow remote access at all).

Where I think this internal scrambling approach might be applicable is protection against side-band attacks compromising security.

Thanks for the tip, it helped me

It did? How?

[ivar]

I don't see how modifying the internal operation of a processor chip prevents a hacker finding their way through the usual holes in security layers supposed to prevent unauthorised access to data while allowing authorised access (

especially the vulnerable "layer 8" (human layer)..

[Hoser Rob]

IMHO installing anything (even Linux) thinking it'll prevent you from being hacked forever is the WORST thing you can do for security.

[AZgl1800]

I made a new change to my Firefox settings this week,

Set a Password for cookies and bookmarks.

I tested it to see if it really works, opened up Vivaldi and Opera and asked them to import my FF Bookmarks,
both browsers reported "no bookmarks found"