https://hackingpassion.com/tags/side-channel/Recent content in Side-Channel on HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]HugoenSat, 30 May 2026 11:34:44 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/frost-ssd-browser-spying/Sat, 30 May 2026 11:34:44 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/frost-ssd-browser-spying/<p><strong>FROST</strong> lets a website time your SSD and see which sites and apps you have open, even ones running in a different browser. It needs no malware and nothing to install. Opening the page is all it takes. While you sit there reading whatever the attacker put on screen, the page is quietly measuring how busy your drive is, and from that alone it works out what else you are running.</p>https://hackingpassion.com/fiber-optic-eavesdropping/Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:12:17 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/fiber-optic-eavesdropping/<p>Fiber optic cables running through your walls can be turned into hidden microphones that record every word spoken in the room. This is not a theory anymore. Researchers from Hong Kong Polytechnic University published a fully working attack at the NDSS Symposium in February 2026, and the results are going to change the way a lot of people think about what is running through their walls. 😏</p> <p>I refused to get fiber optic internet installed at my house. Call it a security instinct. Everyone around me thought I was being paranoid. Turns out that feeling was right.</p>