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New SWAPGS Side-Channel Attack Bypasses Spectre and Meltdown Defenses
2019-08-07 13:55

Researchers demonstrate a new side-channel attack that bypass mitigations against Spectre and Meltdown.

SWAPGS Attack: A new Spectre haunts machines with Intel CPUs
2019-08-06 23:10

Bitdefender researchers have uncovered yet another viable speculative execution side-channel attack that can be leveraged against Intel CPUs and the computers running on them. The SWAPGS Attack,...

Deja-wooo-oooh! Intel chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
2019-08-06 23:01

SWAPGS can be abused to siphon sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution...

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...

OpenSSH adds protection against Spectre, Meltdown, RAMBleed
2019-06-24 12:10

OpenSSH, a widely used suite of programs for secure (SSH protocol-based) remote login, has been equipped with protection against side-channel attacks that could allow attackers to extract private...

Behind the Naming of ZombieLoad and Other Intel Spectre-Like Flaws
2019-05-20 15:14

A lot of thought and meaning goes into the naming of infamous CPU side channel flaws, like ZombieLoad, Spectre and Meltdown.

Why MDS vulnerabilities present a threat as serious as Spectre and Meltdown
2019-05-15 18:00

Microarchitectural Data Sampling are CPU side-channel vulnerabilities that allow attackers to view in-flight data from CPU-internal buffers. Learn more about MDS attacks in this comprehensive guide.

Intel CPUs Impacted By New Class of Spectre-Like Attacks
2019-05-14 18:01

Intel has disclosed a new class of speculative execution side channel attacks.

Perpetual 'Meltdown': Security in the Post-Spectre Era
2019-03-28 17:18

SonicWall's Bill Conner on Side-Channel Attacks and Other Emerging ThreatsThe information security world has been beset by the emergence of multiple side-channel attacks, including Meltdown,...

Microsoft Rolls Out Spectre Variant 2 Mitigations for Windows 10
2019-03-04 18:37

Over the weekend, Microsoft started rolling out a new software update for Windows 10 devices to enable the Retpoline mitigations against Spectre attacks.  read more