Security News > 2018 > July > Chrome users get Site Isolation by default to ward off Spectre attacks

Site Isolation, the optional security feature added to Chrome 63 late last year to serve as protection against Spectre information disclosure attacks, has been enabled by default for all desktop Chrome users who upgraded to Chrome 67. How Site Isolation mitigates risk of Spectre attacks “In January, Google Project Zero disclosed a set of speculative execution side-channel attacks that became publicly known as Spectre and Meltdown. An additional variant of Spectre was disclosed in May. … More → The post Chrome users get Site Isolation by default to ward off Spectre attacks appeared first on Help Net Security.

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