Spectre can't stay dead despite numerous attempts by Apple to patch it, with iLeakage the latest attack vector to utilize speculative execution demonstrated by researchers. Researchers sharing ...

New variants of Meltdown and Spectre are still surfacing as Intel plans to move to an extended release cycle for patches. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

A recent study conducted by researchers from Ruhr University Bochum, in collaboration with Georgia Tech and the University of Michigan, has revealed that Apple's Safari browser is still susceptible to ...

Google Chrome is enabling a new security feature called Site Isolationin response to the set of speculative execution side-channel attacks known as Spectre and Meltdown. One day after a new ...

A technical paper titled “InSpectre Gadget: Inspecting the Residual Attack Surface of Cross-privilege Spectre v2” was presented at the August 2024 USENIX Security Symposium by researchers at Vrije ...

Modern processors come with a fundamental vulnerability in their hardware architecture that allows attackers to hijack sensitive data. This insight emerged from the so-called Spectre attack reported ...

A new set of CPU vulnerabilities could be inbound, with up to eight different attacks said to target Intel CPUs -- but we'd recommend adopting a wait-and-see approach. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

A new technical paper titled “VMSCAPE: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Virtualization is a cornerstone ...

Top boffins from several universities have discovered a new Spectre-like method of extracting secrets from Chipzilla’s latest processors. A group of researchers from the University of California San ...

A group of four researchers from Graz University of Technology have published a paper that describes a network-based CPU attack that mimics Spectre v1 (CVE-2017-5753). It does not require that any ...