The year so far has been filled with news of Spectre and Meltdown. These exploits take advantage of features like speculative execution, and memory access timing. What they have in common is the fact ...

It boils down to isolating memory caches on processors in a way that prevents them from seeing anything they don't need to know. MIT likens it to putting walls in a kitchen that prevent chefs from ...

Last week Apple pushed out iOS 11.2.2, which seeks to mitigate the risks associated with the Spectre chip flaw via a security update to Safari and Webkit. Since a Spectre attacker is most likely to ...

Arm has published a list of processors vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown cache speculation side-channel attacks, a description of the attack mechanism and detailed mitigation techniques. Available ...

Researchers at the universities of Virginia and California in the United States have devised new Spectre-style hardware attacks that make it possible to steal data when processors fetch commands from ...

The Spectre processor design flaw continues to haunt Intel, with the Hyperthreading performance boosting feature in its hardware potentially being exploitable for information leak attacks.

Arm has published a list of processors vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown cache speculation side-channel attacks, a description of the attack mechanism and detailed mitigation techniques. Available ...