Computer security has become a hot topic, as concerns grow around a rising number of hacks taking place.
From a consumer perspective, anti-virus software is the main weapon of defence, but on the production side, a deeper level of training is required.
MIT offers a course, 6.5950, which trains people how to both attack and defend central processing units (CPUs).
As the course is open source, anyone can access the materials online, and audit the course.
OneDame has highlighted some of the more intriguing lecture slides, including an article which examines the spike in orders at pizza restaurants.
When big news is about to break, particularly in Washington DC, pizza orders to places such as The White House and the Pentagon increase, hence the term “pizza-int” amongst spies.
OneDame adds that another slide takes a lighter look at RowHammer – “RowHammer in One Sentence” – which shows how software can compromise a computer by exploiting dynamic random-access memory (DRAM).
