We are looking for a PhD student intern this summer to research optimal heuristics for a new feature of ours that provides finer-grained, context-aware control over fragmentation in the Linux buddy allocator. Fully remote, please email hiring@ if interested.

Johannes Wikner has published a detailed walkthrough of the first cross-process Spectre exploit against a real target, an attack he developed in part during his internship with us last year. Check it out here: grsecurity.net/cross_proces...

A new version of paxctld (1.2.6) is now available for download!