New Whitepaper Claims GPUs Threaten Malware Security

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For the past 3.5 years or so, NVIDIA has ardently advocated the GPU as a computational platform capable of solving almost any problem. One topic the company hasn't targeted, however, is the tremendous performance advantage the GPU could offer malware authors. The idea that a graphics card could double as a security hole isn't something we've heard before, but according to a paper by Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis and Sotiris Ionnidis, it's an attack vector whose popularity could boom in coming years.

29 Sep, 2010


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Source: http://www.hothardware.com/News/New-Whitepaper-Claims-GPUs-Threaten-Malware-Security
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