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Spook.js - This will bloat Chrome even more | The Backend Engineering Show

Spook.js - This will bloat Chrome even more | The Backend Engineering Show

FromThe Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser


Spook.js - This will bloat Chrome even more | The Backend Engineering Show

FromThe Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Sep 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Spook.js is a new transient execution side channel attack which targets the Chrome web browser. We show that despite Google's attempts to mitigate Spectre by deploying Strict Site Isolation, information extraction via malicious JavaScript code is still possible in some cases.
Resources
https://www.spookjs.com/
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/site-isolation
Paper: https://www.spookjs.com/files/spook-js.pdf
Chapters
0:00 Process Isolation in Chrome
8:00 Spook.js subdomain Attack
12:00 Spook.js Extension Attack
13:00 Summary
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Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr ?‍? Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses