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Covered by 7 sources See all sources covering this story including arstechnica.com, WIREDDiscussed on Hacker News

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arstechnica.com·

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

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WIRED·

Websites Can Now Spy on You Through Your Hard Drive

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GitHub·

HenBOMB/frost-guard: FROST (Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing) is a browser-based side-channel attack that lets malicious websites spy on your system activity — detecting which websites you visit and which applications you open — by measuring SSD contention through the Origin Private File System (OPFS) API.

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GitHub·

brammittendorff/opfs-ssd-timing: Browser-based PoC of the FROST SSD-contention side channel: pure-JS OPFS read/flush timing to detect (and fingerprint) disk activity. Research/education only.

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thehackernews.com·

New FROST Attack Lets Websites Track What Sites and Apps You Open via SSD Timing

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hardware.slashdot.org·

Websites Have a New Way To Spy On Visitors: Analyzing Their SSD Activity

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In other languages

golem.de·

Seitenkanalangriff im Browser: App-Spionage durch Messung von SSD-Zugriffszeiten

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Les news de Korben·

FROST - Quand un site web peut vous tracker grâce à votre SSD

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