Intel’s world turns upside-down A new Intel security flaw has been discovered that potentially allows passwords to be stolen. Researchers said the new flaw enables an “inverse spectre attack” which… ...

New variants of Meltdown and Spectre are still surfacing as Intel plans to move to an extended release cycle for patches. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

A new set of CPU vulnerabilities could be inbound, with up to eight different attacks said to target Intel CPUs -- but we'd recommend adopting a wait-and-see approach. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

Facepalm: Spectre-based flaws are still causing some security issues in recent Intel and AMD CPUs. A newly developed attack can bypass protection "barriers" OEMs added to avoid personal data leakage.

Spectre lives. We’ve got two separate pieces of research, each finding new processor primitives that allow Spectre-style memory leaks. Before we dive into the details of the new techniques, let’s ...

A new technical paper titled “VMSCAPE: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Virtualization is a cornerstone ...

Intel says not to worry and that the earlier patches it issued address these new security flaws as well as the older hardware bugs.

Google Chrome is enabling a new security feature called Site Isolationin response to the set of speculative execution side-channel attacks known as Spectre and Meltdown. One day after a new ...