Spectre

iLeakage attack exploits Safari to steal data from Apple devices

Boffins devised a new iLeakage side-channel speculative execution attack exploits Safari to steal sensitive data from Macs, iPhones, and iPads.…

6 months ago

Experts found 2 Linux Kernel flaws that can allow bypassing Spectre mitigations

Linux kernel recently fixed a couple of vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to bypass mitigations designed to protect devices…

3 years ago

Microsoft enabled Retpoline mitigations against the Spectre Variant 2 for Windows 10

Microsoft started rolling out a new software update for Windows 10 systems to apply mitigations against the Spectre attacks. Over…

5 years ago

Boffins discovered seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Researchers who devised the original Meltdown and Spectre attacks disclosed seven new variants that leverage on a technique known as transient…

5 years ago

NetSpectre is a remote Spectre attack that allows stealing data over the network

Researchers discovered a new variant of the Spectre attack, dubbed NetSpectre, that allows to steal data over the network from the…

6 years ago

SpectreRSB – new Spectre CPU side-channel attack using the Return Stack Buffer

Researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have devised a new Spectre CPU side-channel attack called SpectreRSB. SpectreRSB leverage the speculative…

6 years ago

Oracle issued security patches for recently discovered Spectre and Meltdown issues

Last week Oracle started releasing software and microcode updates for products affected by the recently disclosed variants of the Spectre…

6 years ago

Tech giants are all working on new Spectre and Meltdown attacks, so-called variant 3 and variant 4

Yesterday AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech firms released updates, mitigations and published security advisories for two new variants…

6 years ago

Experts propose a new variation of the Spectre attack to recover data from System Management Mode

Researchers from Eclypsium proposed a new variation of the Spectre attack that can allow attackers to recover data stored inside…

6 years ago

Spectre-NG – Researchers revealed 8 new varieties of the Spectre flaws

A group of security researchers has reportedly discovered 8 new varieties of the Spectre vulnerabilities, dubbed Spectre-Next Generation or Spectre-NG, that affect Intel CPUs. A German…

6 years ago

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