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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.
These vulnerabilities have existed for over 20 years, and we are not even close to closing the door on these significant risks.
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
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.…
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...
From under the hood to showroom exhibit Google is touting the benefits of a recently introduced browser security feature called Site Isolation.…
A new feature called site isolation is being tapped to protect Chrome users against Spectre.
The newly-discovered Spectre variants can be exploited to uncover confidential data via microarchitectural side channels in CPUs.
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...