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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:35 am Post subject: NetCAT Vulnerability Exploits DDIO on Intel Xeon Processors |
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DDIO, or Direct Data I/O, is an Intel-exclusive performance enhancement that allows NICs to directly access a processor's L3 cache, completely bypassing the a server's RAM, to increase NIC performance and lower latencies. Cybersecurity researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and ETH Zurich, in a research paper publis...read more |
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