Latest Speculative Execution Side Channel news

New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs

Researchers have demonstrated the "first native Spectre v2 exploit" for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors.
- Bill Toulas
- April 10, 2024
- 01:19 PM
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New iLeakage attack steals emails, passwords from Apple Safari

Academic researchers created a new speculative side-channel attack they named iLeakage that works on all recent Apple devices and can extract sensitive information from the Safari web browser.
- Bill Toulas
- October 26, 2023
- 07:26 AM
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SWAPGS Vulnerability in Modern CPUs Fixed in Windows, Linux, ChromeOS

Both Microsoft and Redhat have released advisories about a new variant of the Spectre 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious program to access and read the contents of privileged memory in an operating system.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 06, 2019
- 02:15 PM
- 2
Older Windows 10 Versions Get Intel Microcode Updates for MDS Vulns

Microsoft has released Intel Microcode update that resolve MDS speculative side channel execution vulnerabilities in older versions of Windows 10 and Windows server.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 03, 2019
- 07:07 PM
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Boost Windows 10 Performance with Retpoline Spectre Mitigation

If you are using older Intel processors or AMD processors, you can boost the performance of Windows 10 by enabling the Retpoline Spectre mitigations that were recently ported to Windows 10 October 2018 Update build 1809.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 05, 2019
- 10:48 AM
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The Intel Microcode Boot Loader Protects Older CPUs From Spectre

The Intel Microcode Boot Loader creates a bootable USB flash drive that automatically applies the latest Intel microcodes to your identified CPU so that you are protected from the speculative execution side-channel attacks called Spectre.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 12, 2018
- 06:34 PM
- 2
Researchers Disclose New Foreshadow (L1TF) Vulnerabilities Affecting Intel CPUs

Academics and private sector researchers have revealed details today about three new vulnerabilities affecting Intel CPUs.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- August 14, 2018
- 02:28 PM
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New Lazy FP State Restore Vulnerability Affects All Intel Core CPUs

What a horrible year in security for Intel. First we had the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that never seem to go away. Now Intel has announced a new speculative execution side channel vulnerability involving "Lazy FP state restore" that could allow a malicious program to read data being used by other processes.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 13, 2018
- 11:09 PM
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