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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...
Research is continuing to find new attack vectors.
Chipzilla preps for quarterly public patch updates Exclusive Intel will today emit a dozen security alerts for its products and code – including details of another vulnerability within the Spectre...
And NSA can't stop slurping your phone records Roundup This week we dealt with buggered bookies, trouble at Ticketmaster, and a compromised Linux build from Gentoo.…
The planned threading in shared memory update gives bad actors a way around the timer mitigations released by browser vendors.
Oracle Linux and VM get their innoculations Oracle has released fixes for Spectre v3a, Spectre v4, and the “Lazy FPU” vulnerability.…
After the discovery of Spectre and Meltdown attacks, browser creators added new protections to defend against attacks. But WebAssembly code might undo all their hard work.
Oracle announced on Friday that it has started releasing software and microcode updates for products affected by the recently disclosed variants of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. read more
Security-oriented BSD operating system OpenBSD has decided to disable support for Intel's hyper-threading performance-boosting feature, citing security concerns over Spectre-style timing attacks....
Good thing too because Intel's planned chip changes may break Google's Retpoline A group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative...