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RSAC 2019: Picking Apart the Foreshadow Attack

March 5, 2019 TH Author Foreshadow, Hacks, Intel, Meltdown, patch, RSA 2019, RSAC, Spectre, speculative execution

Raoul Strackx, one of the researchers who discovered the Foreshadow speculative execution vulnerability, talks at RSA about the Catch-22 issue when it comes to fixing speculative execution flaws. READ MORE HERE…

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PortSmash Side-Channel Attack Siphons Data From Intel, Other CPUs

November 5, 2018 TH Author AMD, CPU, CVE-2018-5407, Data, Hacks, Hyper-Threading, Intel, Meltdown, side-channel, Side-channel attack, SMT, Spectre, TLBleed, Vulnerabilities

An exploit was released for a flaw existing in a process in CPUs called Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). READ MORE HERE…

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New Ninth-Gen Intel CPUs Shield Against Some Spectre, Meltdown Variants

October 9, 2018 TH Author CPU, Intel, intel Cannonlake, L1TF, Meltdown, Spectre, virtual fences, Vulnerabilities

New Intel Coffee Lake CPUs offer hardware-based protections against some -but not all- Spectre and Meltdown variants. READ MORE HERE…

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New Spectre-Level Flaw Targets Return Stack Buffer

July 23, 2018 TH Author Hacks, Intel, Meltdown, RSB Stuffing, Spectre, Spectre patch, SpectreRSB, Variant 4, Vulnerabilities

The most recent Spectre-class flaw targets a component in CPUs called the return stack buffer. READ MORE HERE…

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Spectre Will Haunt Us For a Long Time

July 23, 2018 TH Author chipmakers, Critical Infrastructure, infosec insider, Intel, long term effects, Meltdown, Mobile Security, os, Patches, performance, Spectre, virsec, Vulnerabilities, Web Security

These vulnerabilities have existed for over 20 years, and we are not even close to closing the door on these significant risks. READ MORE HERE…

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Chrome Now Features Site Isolation to Defend Against Spectre

July 12, 2018 TH Author chrome, Chrome 67, Google Chrome, Intel, Meltdown, Site Isolation, Spectre, spectre attack, Vulnerabilities, Web Security

A new feature called site isolation is being tapped to protect Chrome users against Spectre. READ MORE HERE…

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Keeping False Positives in Check

July 6, 2018 TH Author Cloud Security, False Positives, IoT, Meltdown, Security information and event management, SIEM, Spectre, WannaCry

InfoSec Insider Justin Jett shares his opinions on how to avoid false positive security threat fatigue before sets in and companies drop their guard. READ MORE HERE…

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WebAssembly Changes Could Ruin Meltdown and Spectre Browser Patches

June 27, 2018 TH Author browsers, CPU, Meltdown, mitigations, Patches, shared memory, side channel flaw, Spectre, threading, timers, Vulnerabilities, Web Security, WebAssembly

The planned threading in shared memory update gives bad actors a way around the timer mitigations released by browser vendors. READ MORE HERE…

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Google Patches 34 Browser Bugs in Chrome 67, Adds Spectre Fixes

May 30, 2018 TH Author chrome, Chrome 67, Google, Google Chrome, HTTP Public Key, Site Isolation, Spectre, Vulnerabilities, Web Security

Google has rolled out its newest browser version (Chrome 67.0.3396.62) for Windows, Mac and Linux this week with new security fixes and biometric features. READ MORE HERE…

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