Hardware Flaws require Extra Diligence
Spectre and Meltdown are still relevant, even years after their discovery. Refresh yourself on the status of these hardware flaws to see if you are exposed. Your hardware is now…
Researchers demonstrate new browser-based side-channel attack that affects Intel and M1 Macs
A group of researchers has uncovered what looks to be the first browser-based side-channel attack that's built entirely from CSS and HTML. The JavaScript-free attack has been found to work…
Arm CPUs impacted by rare side-channel attack
Chipmaker Arm has issued guidance to software developers this week detailing mitigations against a new vulnerability discovered in its Armv8-A (Cortex-A) CPU architecture. Codenamed SLS (standing for Straight-Line Speculation), this…
Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: ‘They’re not going away.’
The problem with how Intel designed speculative execution is that, while anticipating the next action for the CPU to take does indeed speed things up, it also exposes data along…