Security researchers have discovered a new speculative execution attack called Retbleed that affects processors from both Intel and AMD and could be used to extract sensitive information. Retbleed ...

Testing the new retpoline mitigation on AMD for Spectre v2 shows that the performance loss with the new patch is nowhere nearly as big as the performance impact incurred by Intel processors. Recently, ...

I am sure that you are aware of the hardware vulnerabilities Spectre and Meltdown which were revealed last year in January. These hardware vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data that is being ...

Since the Spectre and Meltdown processor flaws were first made public last week, tech firms have been scrambling to get updates pushed out to users' devices. The only problem? In fixing the bugs, ...

Google has published details about a new coding technique created by the company's engineers that any developer can deploy and prevent Spectre attacks. The company claims this new technique, called ...

Several versions of the Linux kernel have been patched with Retpoline which was made by a Google employee to mitigate against Spectre while keeping performance levels the same as they were before.

Microsoft has rolled out today cumulative update KB4482887, an update that includes an important security fix, a new mitigation for the Spectre v2 CPU vulnerability. This new mitigation is based on a ...

Where computing is concerned, security should always be a major focus. In 2018, that focus almost seemed overwhelming, thanks in part to the fact that the infamous Spectre and Meltdown security ...

Ever since the Meltdown and Spectre were disclosed earlier this year, the issues surrounding the speculative execution exploits has been multi-pronged. On the one hand, there are concerns that ...

Linux 4.15 has been released with an implementation of Google’s “retpoline” fix. The fix addresses the Spectre security vulnerability. Spectre, and its related vulnerability Meltdown, allow a feature ...