New Meltdown and Spectre-like vulnerability found in Intel CPUs
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Tag: Spectre
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5 years ago
“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
5 years ago
Firefox arm itself against Spectre attacks with Project Fission
With the launch of Project Fission, Mozilla hopes to make its Firefox browser resistant to future side-channel attacks once and for all. We first met that last year in the form of Spectre and Meltdown. Early last year, Spectre and Meltdown introduced a new category of side-channel attacks that explo... Read more
5 years ago
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
5 years ago
Researchers find new Spectre-like attack: SplitSpectre
Researchers from Northeastern University and IBM Research have found a new variation on the Spectre vulnerability that can be abused via code in the browser. That's what ZDNet reports. It concerns SplitSpectre, a CPU vulnerability due to a design flaw in the micro-architecture of modern processors. ... Read more
5 years ago
Linux 4.20 Kernel plunges Intel performance thanks to Spectre
2018 is the year in which Intel regularly made negative news. Spectre and Meltdown are still critical leaks that are difficult to plug. Linux 4.20 partially tackles the problem, but some benchmarks note a delay of up to 50 percent in performance. Phoronix' test results leave little to the imaginatio... Read more
5 years ago
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
5 years ago
Microsoft patches Spectre without performance loss in next Windows 10 update
Microsoft is implementing a solution to the performance issues with Windows 10 as a result of the Spectre patches rolled out at the beginning of this year. The solution will be part of the next feature update in the first half of 2019 (19H1). We have enabled retpoline on our 19H1 flights by default,... Read more
6 years ago
