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Attempts to mitigate the landmark vulnerabilities have caused crashes, sudden reboots, and performance degradations. Here's the progress report on the Spectre and Meltdown solution.
First proof-of-concept, SplitSpectre, requires fewer instructions in victim Analysis You've patched your Intel, AMD, Power, and Arm gear to crush those pesky data-leaking speculative execution...
One of Intel’s fixes for the Spectre variant 2 chip flaw appears to have taken a big bite out of the performance of the latest Linux kernel.
This is on by default? 'Yikes' says Chipzilla techie Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has voiced support for a kernel patch that limits a previously deployed defense against Spectre Variant 2, a...
CPU slingers insist existing defenses will stop attacks – but eggheads disagree Computer security researchers have uncovered yet another set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that...
Back in January, we learned about a class of vulnerabilities against microprocessors that leverages various performance and efficiency shortcuts for attack. I wrote that the first two attacks...
A team of researchers has described seven new variants of the notorious Meltdown and Spectre attacks, and they claim some of these methods are not mitigated by existing patches, but Intel...
Experiments showed that processors from AMD, ARM, and Intel are affected.
Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited...
Systemic analysis reveals a range of new issues, and a need for new mitigations.