‘New Meltdown-like leak Intel chips make data vulnerable’
Researchers at Bitdefender and a number of universities have found a Meltdown-like vulnerability in Intel processors. In theory, the leak could be used to steal data from computers running on Intel chips.
The researchers gave the vulnerability the name Load Value Injection (LVI). After the repor... Read more
“Spectre vulnerabilities require more than just software fixes.
The Spectre vulnerability continues to cause problems. Since it was found last year, many companies have released software patches to solve the problems. But it seems that software alone is not enough to provide a definitive solution.
That's what Google researchers say in a paper they published toda... Read more
Linux kernel gets new option to disable Spectre solutions
Security researchers found vulnerabilities in processors in early 2018, which were given the name Spectre. Various solutions have now been rolled out for this, but they also appear to result in significantly lower performance in Linux systems. Now an option to disable the solutions has been added, r... Read more
Investigators find seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks
A team of nine investigators claims to have detected seven new CPU attacks. The attacks affect AMD, ARM and Intel CPUs at various levels. Two of the attacks appear to be variations of Meltdown, the other five are variations of Spectre. That's what ZDNet reports.
Meltdown and Spectre were unveiled a... Read more