Security News > 2019 > August > Deja-woooo: Intel, AMD chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
2019-08-06 23:01
SWAPGS attack can leak sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was disclosed last year and affects various vendors' chips – has a new sibling that bypasses previous mitigations.…
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