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Intel promises fix after researchers reveal ‘CacheOut’ CPU flaws

January 29, 2020 0 Comments bwain, cacheout, Intel chips, meltdown, security threats, side channel vulnerability, spectre, zombieload

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:11:17 +0000

Forget the infamous Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws from 2018, the problem that’s tying down Intel’s patching team these days is a more recent class of side channel vulnerabilities known collectively as ZombieLoad.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9wzLWKs_aWI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Linux maintainer: Patching side-channel flaws is killing performance

October 31, 2019 0 Comments cve-2018-12126, cve-2018-12127, cve-2018-12130, cve-2019-11091, greg kroah-hartman, hyperthreading, Intel, Linux, meltdown, security threats, simultaneous multithreading (smt), spectre, vulnerability, zombieload

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:15:11 +0000

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the worst side-channel vulnerability of them all?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4OlRsV8RD_Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>