Enlarge / A shiny wafer full of Kaby Lake refresh parts. (credit: Intel)
Last week, developers on OpenBSD—the open-source operating system that prioritizes security—disabled hyperthreadin
Tag: processors
Intel Skylake die shot. (credit: Intel)
A new attack that uses processors’ speculative-execution capabilities to leak data, named Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), has been published afte
Enlarge / An AMD Ryzen. (credit: Fritzchens Fritz)
The latest Windows 10 fixes, released as part of yesterday’s Patch Tuesday, enable protection against the Spectre variant 2 attacks on
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Researchers from the College of William and Mary, Carnegie Mellon, the University of California Riverside, and Binghamton University have described a security atta