Security News

Spectre Will Haunt Us For a Long Time
2018-07-23 18:22

These vulnerabilities have existed for over 20 years, and we are not even close to closing the door on these significant risks.

Siemens Informs Customers of New Meltdown, Spectre Variants
2018-07-17 19:10

Siemens recently updated its security bulletin for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities to inform customers of the latest variants, specifically the ones known as LazyFP and Spectre 1.1. read more

'007' code helps stop Spectre exploits before they exist
2018-07-17 05:34

Singaporeans boffins offer Spectre-protector as Fortinet ponders Android inoculation Black hats haven't yet found a way to mass-exploit the Spectre vulnerability – but mitigations are already arriving.…

Chrome users get Site Isolation by default to ward off Spectre attacks
2018-07-13 16:17

Site Isolation, the optional security feature added to Chrome 63 late last year to serve as protection against Spectre information disclosure attacks, has been enabled by default for all desktop...

Google claims Site Isolation will stop Spectre haunting Chrome users
2018-07-12 21:37

From under the hood to showroom exhibit Google is touting the benefits of a recently introduced browser security feature called Site Isolation.…

Chrome Now Features Site Isolation to Defend Against Spectre
2018-07-12 15:37

A new feature called site isolation is being tapped to protect Chrome users against Spectre.

Fresh Spectre Variants Come to Light
2018-07-11 17:48

The newly-discovered Spectre variants can be exploited to uncover confidential data via microarchitectural side channels in CPUs.

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty
2018-07-11 11:48

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one (CVE-2017-5753). The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1...

Intel Pays $100,000 Bounty for New Spectre Variants
2018-07-11 05:13

Researchers have discovered new variations of the Spectre attack and they received $100,000 from Intel through the company’s bug bounty program. The new flaws are variations of Spectre Variant 1...

New Spectre-like attack uses speculative execution to overflow buffers
2018-07-10 21:00

Research is continuing to find new attack vectors.