Spectre
A New Security Threat to Public Clouds From Old Vulnerabilities
Researchers at the WHY2025 hacker forum said they were able to combine the Spectre and L1TF processor vulnerabilities discovered in 2018 to create a new transient execution attack called L1TF Reloaded that ...
SLAP/FLOP: Apple Silicon’s ‘Son of Spectre’ Critical Flaws
Watch this: Want more “speculative execution” bugs? You’re gonna be in a great mood all day ...
Understanding Spectre V2: A New Threat to Linux Systems
Recently, researchers uncovered a significant threat dubbed Spectre v2, a variant of the notorious Spectre attack, targeting Linux systems running on modern Intel processors. Let’s delve into the intricacies of this exploit, ...
#iLeakage: All Apple CPUs Vulnerable — No Patch in Sight
Son of Spectre: No fix for iOS, “unstable” workaround for macOS ...
Retbleed Security Fix Makes Linux go 70% Slower
The Linux kernel workaround for the ‘Retbleed’ vulnerability is causing a huge slowdown in tests of slightly old hardware ...
Specter of Spectre is Back, in New Micro-Op Cache Vuln
It’s been three years, but now researchers have disclosed new attacks on speculative execution in Intel and AMD chips ...
BlindSide: Intel/AMD Speculation Bugs Under Microscope Again
Researchers have published frightening details on what they’re calling BlindSide, which relies on co-opting our old friend speculative execution ...
Side-Channel Attacks: Cyber Warfare’s New Battleground
The current state of cybersecurity is complex, fast-moving and a critical risk to all organizations. Understanding where U.S. businesses stack up in terms of their security knowledge and defense strategy is of ...
A week in security (July 9 – July 15)
A roundup of the security news from July 9 - July 15, including sextortion, Spectre, cryptomining, mobile malware, ICO scams and more. Categories: Security world Week in security Tags: ad blockersandroid malwarecrypto ...
Intel Faces Yet Another Speculative Execution Flaw in Its CPUs
As predicted by security researchers, the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities announced this year were just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to security issues related to the speculative execution feature ...
