Category Archives: Spectre Variant

CPU Speculative Execution Hits Again with 2 New Spectre Variants

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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 digging and found new issues, the late… Continue reading CPU Speculative Execution Hits Again with 2 New Spectre Variants→

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty

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Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one (CVE-2017-5753).

The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 (CVE-2018-3693) and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 describ… Continue reading Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty→