Foreshadow, the new data-stealing vulnerabilities impacting Intel chips
Three new Spectre-class vulnerabilities that impact how Intel chips process information were revealed on Tuesday. The bugs mean data meant to be protected can be accessed by a hackers due to speculative execution leaks, a problem that’s plagued all modern processors since the beginning of the year. The problem, which ironically lays in Intel’s security technology SGX, may allow hackers to access private data including passwords and other files. The data can be stolen across virtual machines or applications on the same device. Speculative execution works like this: All modern chips make educated assumptions — the speculation — about what will happen next in order to speed up performance — the execution. The original class of attack included the Spectre (Variants 1 and 2) and Meltdown (Variant 3) vulnerabilities, discovered by Google’s Project Zero and made public in January. Virtually all modern computer chips have even impacted. There have been […]
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