This week, a pair of vulnerabilities broke basic security for practically all computers. That's not an overstatement. Revelations about Meltdown and Spectre have wreaked digital havoc and left a ...

Google has released a proof of concept (PoC) code to demonstrate the practicality of Spectre side-channel attacks against a browser's JavaScript engine to leak information from its memory. Google in ...

Remember Spectre and Meltdown, the twin transient attack CPU vulnerabilities that were uncovered for the first time back in 2017? The Spectre variant 2 flaw has popped its head up again in Intel CPUs.

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