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US researchers find flaw affecting processors made since 2011 – iTWire
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering computer science department have discovered vulnerabilities earlier in the speculative execution…
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering computer science department have discovered vulnerabilities earlier in the speculative execution chain of a processor than the Spectre flaw which was made public in January 2018.Spectre can trick vulnerable applications into leaking the contents of their memory.
The UVA team found a way to exploit what is called a micro-op cache which speeds up computing by storing commands early in the speculative execution process. Micro-op caches…
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