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SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs

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A new variant of the Spectre (Variant 1) side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects all modern Intel CPUs, and probably some AMD processors as well, which leverage speculative execution for high performance, Microsoft and Red Hat warne… Continue reading SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs→

7 New Meltdown and Spectre-type CPU Flaws Affect Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs

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Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited in a trivial way to access highly sensitive information… Continue reading 7 New Meltdown and Spectre-type CPU Flaws Affect Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs→