New CPU memory type proposed. No silicon prototype. Just a research paper and a lot of hope. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Tag: spectre
Microsoft rolls out Google’s Retpoline Spectre mitigation to Windows 10 users
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•KB4482887, released today, enables Google’s Retpoline mitigation in the Windows 10 kernel (only for v1809 users). …read more Source:: Open Source S
Linux kernel gets another option to disable Spectre mitigations
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•People want more control over the Spectre mitigations for the sake of performance. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Researchers discover SplitSpectre, a new Spectre-like CPU attack
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•Spectre-like variations continue to be discovered, just as academics predicted at the start of 2018. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Linus Torvalds: After big Linux performance hit, Spectre v2 patch needs curbs
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•Patch is causing as much as a 50 percent drop in performance in some Linux workloads. …read more Source:: Open Source
Researchers discover seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks
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•Experiments showed that processors from AMD, ARM, and Intel are affected. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Intel ‘gags’ Linux distros from revealing performance hit from Spectre patches
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•You can test performance after using our patches, but don’t publish the results, say Intel’s new license terms. …read more Source:: Open Source S
The return of Spectre
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•Two new ways to assault computers using Spectre-style attacks have been discovered. These can be used against any operating system running on AMD, ARM, and Intel processors. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Spectre chip security vulnerability strikes again; patches incoming
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•A Google developer discovered a new way that a ‘Spectre’-style check can be used to attack any computer running any operating system. …read more Source:: Open Source
Ex-Intel security expert: This new Spectre attack can even reveal firmware secrets
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•A new variant of Spectre can expose the contents of memory that normally can’t be accessed by the OS kernel. …read more Source:: Open Source S