speculative execution
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 ...
#iLeakage: All Apple CPUs Vulnerable — No Patch in Sight
Son of Spectre: No fix for iOS, “unstable” workaround for macOS ...
Apple M1 Flaw Can’t be Fixed — PACMAN Panic
Apple’s M1 chip isn’t as safe from buffer overflows as previously thought. M1 and other designs based on ARMv8.3 can have their ‘PAC’ protection neutered ...
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 ...
Can Applications Withstand the ZombieLoad Attack?
As if Meltdown, Spectre and Foreshadow were not enough, recently a new critical vulnerability called ZombieLoad has been discovered that affects a series of modern Intel processors. This vulnerability enables a potential ...
Security Boulevard’s 5 Most Read Stories for the Week, August 13-17
A new week, a new crop of security stories. Last week, lack of user privacy, man-in-the-attack, dumb privacy rules and Intel CPUs vulnerabilities made the headlines. In addition, we discussed how to get ...
New Foreshadow Vulnerabilities Defeat Memory Defenses on Intel CPUs
Security researchers have uncovered a new way to exploit the speculative execution feature of Intel CPUs to bypass memory security barriers and leak protected information. The vulnerability, known as Foreshadow or L1 ...
CPU Speculative Execution Hits Again with 2 New Spectre Variants
At the beginning of this year, the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities shined a spotlight on the security risks associated with the speculative execution feature of modern CPUs. Since then, researchers have kept ...
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 ...
