Security News

New Ninth-Gen Intel CPUs Shield Against Some Spectre, Meltdown Variants
2018-10-09 19:37

New Intel Coffee Lake CPUs offer hardware-based protections against some -but not all- Spectre and Meltdown variants.

Windows 10: Microsoft and Intel patch latest Spectre CPU vulnerabilities
2018-08-22 11:27

New Windows 10 updates contain Intel's latest microcode fixes for the recently discovered Spectre variant 3a and 4 vulnerabilities.

Google Spectre whizz kicked out of Caesars, blocked from DEF CON over hack 'attack' tweet
2018-08-10 11:20

'Chaos specialist' Linton thrown out of hotel after quip backfires At midnight on Thursday, Matt Linton, a senior Google bod who was one of the key players in sorting out the Spectre CPU security...

Off-colour tweet earns Google’s Spectre whizz a midnight eviction from Caesars and DEF CON
2018-08-10 11:20

Last year Hutchins, now Linton targeted Black Hat/DEF CON At midnight on Thursday Matt Linton, a senior Google engineer who was one of the key players in sorting out the Spectre security hole...

Spectre chip weakness can be used to steal data remotely
2018-07-31 11:52

Researchers have found a new variant of the Spectre CPU flaw that shows how attackers could steal data remotely without having to run malicious code on a local system.

NetSpectre — New Remote Spectre Attack Steals Data Over the Network
2018-07-27 08:48

A team of security researchers has discovered a new Spectre attack that can be launched over the network, unlike all other Spectre variants that require some form of local code execution on the...

Remote Spectre Attack Allows Data Theft Over Network
2018-07-27 05:46

A team of researchers from the Graz University of Technology in Austria has demonstrated that Spectre attacks can be launched remotely without the need to execute code on the targeted machine. read more

New Spectre attack enables secrets to be leaked over a network
2018-07-26 21:40

It's no longer necessary to run attacker code on the victim system.

Spectre rises from the dead to bite Intel in the return stack buffer
2018-07-23 20:30

AMD, Arm chips may also have to deal with this seemingly invincible ghost in the machine Spectre, a class of vulnerabilities in the speculative execution mechanism employed in modern processor...

New Spectre-Level Flaw Targets Return Stack Buffer
2018-07-23 18:27

The most recent Spectre-class flaw targets a component in CPUs called the return stack buffer.