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Spectre and Meltdown Attacks
2018-01-04 12:28

After a week or so of rumors, everyone is now reporting about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks against pretty much every modern processor out there. These are side-channel attacks where one process can spy on other processes. They affect computers where an untrusted browser window can execute code, phones that have multiple apps running at the same time, and cloud...


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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/01/spectre_and_mel.html