https://community.isc2.org/t5/Threats/Apple-M1-PACKMAN-Attack/m-p/51485#M569 <P>PACMAN is a novel hardware attack <A href="https://pacmanattack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered by researchers at MIT CSAIL</A>. PACMAN is what you get when you mix a hardware mitigation for software attacks with microarchitectural side channels. The researchers demonstrated that they can bypass Pointer Authentication (PAC) on the Apple M1 CPU.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Should you be worried? No. PACMAN is an exploitation technique- on its own it cannot compromise your system. While the hardware mechanisms used by PACMAN cannot be patched with software features, memory corruption bugs can.&nbsp;<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="The Cool Logo. https://pacmanattack.com/assets/logo_solid.png" style="width: 200px;"><img src="https://community.isc2.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6201i1E20A2A6D2AC9273/image-size/small?v=v2&amp;px=200" role="button" title="image.png" alt="The Cool Logo. https://pacmanattack.com/assets/logo_solid.png" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">The Cool Logo. https://pacmanattack.com/assets/logo_solid.png</span></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:12:46 GMT AppDefects 2023-10-09T10:12:46Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Threats/Apple-M1-PACKMAN-Attack/m-p/51485#M569 <P>PACMAN is a novel hardware attack <A href="https://pacmanattack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered by researchers at MIT CSAIL</A>. PACMAN is what you get when you mix a hardware mitigation for software attacks with microarchitectural side channels. The researchers demonstrated that they can bypass Pointer Authentication (PAC) on the Apple M1 CPU.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Should you be worried? No. PACMAN is an exploitation technique- on its own it cannot compromise your system. While the hardware mechanisms used by PACMAN cannot be patched with software features, memory corruption bugs can.&nbsp;<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="The Cool Logo. https://pacmanattack.com/assets/logo_solid.png" style="width: 200px;"><img src="https://community.isc2.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6201i1E20A2A6D2AC9273/image-size/small?v=v2&amp;px=200" role="button" title="image.png" alt="The Cool Logo. https://pacmanattack.com/assets/logo_solid.png" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">The Cool Logo. https://pacmanattack.com/assets/logo_solid.png</span></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:12:46 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Threats/Apple-M1-PACKMAN-Attack/m-p/51485#M569 AppDefects 2023-10-09T10:12:46Z