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AMD downplays CPU flaw discovery, says hackers would need admin rights anyway

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Semiconductor giant AMD said today that attackers wouldn’t likely abuse the vulnerabilities recently found in its products: they would need administrative access, and that kind of access would allow for far more effective attacks than the exploit… Continue reading AMD downplays CPU flaw discovery, says hackers would need admin rights anyway→

Google’s CPU Patch Builds Software ‘Trampolines’ that ‘Negligibly’ Impact Performance

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Following the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs, Google engineers developed a new chip-level patch that specifically addresses one of the three issues, namely the “Branch target injection” that’s also refe… Continue reading Google’s CPU Patch Builds Software ‘Trampolines’ that ‘Negligibly’ Impact Performance→