Google has announced security flaws in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs, exploited by abusing the speculative execution used to increase processing throughput. Three teams have been involved in this white hat hacking activity: Google Project Zero and a multi-agency team behind two papers on the vulnerabilities: ‘Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution‘ and ‘Meltdown‘. According to ...

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