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Very often a significant security flaw is followed by new derivatives of the same exploit. Following the widely popular Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution attacks, there were predictions that more flaws of similar nature will hit PC owners pretty soon. Variant 4 is the newest addition to this increasing list of vulnerabilities. In a new […]
In the computer security world, once a vulnerability is found it doesn’t take much longer for the security researchers to find similar flaws and propose new attack mechanisms. The researchers at College of William and Mary, University of California Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, and Binghamton University, have found a new Spectre-like attack. Before I go ahead and […]
Almost all Intel processors produced during the past 10 years are having a major security hole that could make way for some serious attacks. As per a report from The Register, the Linux and Windows kernels are being forced to undergo a significant redesign, which could result in a performance drop. While all the detailed […]