New Class of CPU Flaws Affect Almost Every Intel Processor Since 2011
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT).
Academic researchers today disclosed details of the newest class of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel processors that impacts all modern chips, including the chips used in Apple devices.
After the discovery of Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities earlier last year that put practically every computer in the world at risk, different classes of Spectre and Meltdown variations surfaced again and again.
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