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New Intel Coffee Lake CPUs offer hardware-based protections against some -but not all- Spectre and Meltdown variants.
New Windows 10 updates contain Intel's latest microcode fixes for the recently discovered Spectre variant 3a and 4 vulnerabilities.
'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...
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...
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.
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...
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
It's no longer necessary to run attacker code on the victim system.
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...
The most recent Spectre-class flaw targets a component in CPUs called the return stack buffer.