The actual problem is with speculative execution impacting/disturbing various caches and/or buffers on the CPU. This results in impact on the performance of executing code - an impact that can be ...
A new speculative execution attack named "TIKTAG" targets ARM's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) to leak data with over a 95% chance of success, allowing hackers to bypass the security feature. The ...
AMD thinks that its processors are not impacted by the new SPOILER vulnerability that uses speculative execution to improve the efficiency of memory and cache attacks such as Rowhammer. To be more ...
A technical paper titled “RTL Verification for Secure Speculation Using Contract Shadow Logic” was published by researchers at Princeton University, MIT CSAIL, and EPFL. “Modern out-of-order ...
Earlier this week, a team of security researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum ...
The ghosts of the Meltdown and Spectre will haunt the computing industry for years to come. But now that the initial patching efforts for those CPU flaws are drawing to an end, Google and Microsoft ...
First disclosed in January 2018, the Meltdown and Spectre attacks have opened the floodgates, leading to extensive research into the speculative execution hardware found in modern processors, and a ...