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Research is continuing to find new attack vectors.

Oracle announced on Friday that it has started releasing software and microcode updates for products affected by the recently disclosed variants of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. read more

A new flaw that can allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information on affected systems has been discovered in modern CPUs. CVE-2018-3639, discovered by independently by Google Project...

Security researchers from Microsoft and Google have discovered a fourth variant of the data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre security flaws impacting modern CPUs in millions of computers, including those...

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may...

Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a German magazine alleges.

Researchers have discovered a total of eight new Spectre-like vulnerabilities, including flaws that may be more serious and easier to exploit, according to German magazine c’t. read more

A German IT magazine reported that the vulnerabilities will be disclosed in the immediate future, but patches are coming in May and August.

Bug Bounty Program Seeks to Avoid Further Speculative Execution UnpleasantnessTo help identify and mitigate the next generation of Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution flaws in CPUs,...

Researchers have discovered new variants of Spectre and Meltdown. The software mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown seem to block these variants, although the eventual CPU fixes will have to be...