spectre
Apple defeats class action over Meltdown, Spectre vulns
Judge dismisses class action lawsuit.
Jun 9 2022 11:55AM
Researchers poke holes in Spectre data leak bug fixes
Branch history injection new flavour of Spectre v2.
Mar 10 2022 10:03AM
New micro-op cache attacks break all Spectre defences
Billions of computers vulnerable.
May 2 2021 6:03AM
New 'CacheOut' attack leaks data from CPUs, VMs and hardware enclaves
Intel drops processor microcode fixes again.
Jan 28 2020 10:00AM
Aussie security researcher helps uncover latest Intel flaws
Follows work on Spectre, Meltdown.
May 16 2019 7:25AM
eBay Classifieds Group reboots 80K cores to patch Meltdown-Spectre
Gumtree Australia's owner describes mitigation on its private cloud.
Dec 12 2018 7:03AM
Intel releases first Meltdown-and-Spectre-proof CPUs
Not all variants nobbled.
Oct 9 2018 12:12PM
Chrome's Spectre mitigation is a memory hog
Uses 10-13 percent more memory.
Jul 16 2018 11:39AM
Intel pays $100k 'bounty' on new Spectre variant
Research paper released.
Jul 11 2018 8:53AM
Intel Hyperthreading causes Spectre worries
OpenBSD disables it via update.
Jun 20 2018 11:17AM
Google debates re-engineering Chrome in wake of Spectre
Focuses on Site Isolation to mitigate against attacks.
May 31 2018 5:01PM
Intel trials microcode for browser-exploitable Spectre bug
Spectre Variant 4 can be triggered with Javascript.
May 22 2018 11:20AM
Eight more Spectre-style flaws found in Intel processors
Four rated as high severity.
May 4 2018 10:55AM
How a bad microcode fix could brick billions of chips
Researchers worry about mitigating hardware flaws.
Apr 18 2018 2:39PM
AMD, Microsoft patch 'variant two' Spectre chip flaw
Covers processors dating back to 2011.
Apr 11 2018 6:23AM
Intel won't patch Spectre flaw in some older chips
As mitigation work wraps up.
Apr 4 2018 8:52AM
Intel rearchitects new CPUs in wake of Spectre flaw
Processor-protecting partitioning.
Mar 16 2018 8:34AM
Microsoft offers bug bounties for Spectre, Meltdown flaws
But only for nine months.
Mar 15 2018 1:09PM
Intel releases Spectre fix for Broadwell, Haswell chips
Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge microcode updates still in testing.
Feb 28 2018 3:58PM
Intel kept US infosec officials in the dark about chip flaws
Until after Meltdown and Spectre were made public.
Feb 23 2018 11:53AM
