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Anthony Caruana
Intel has announced that another flaw in their processor architecture has been identified. Dubbed “Variant 4”, the Speculative Store Bypass may allow unauthorised disclosure of information by allowing memory to be read without appropriate permissions. The flaw was reported to Intel by researchers from Google’s Project Zero and the Microsoft…
Intel has issued a statement saying several processor families will not be patched to overcome Variant 2 of the Spectre bug that was detected mid last year and made public just before Christmas. While the processor company has patched many of their processors, the road has been quite bumpy with…
Researchers at malware and security software testing company AV-TEST have discovered 139 samples of malware that “appear to be related to recently reported CPU vulnerabilities.” Although most of the samples they discovered seem to be based on proof-of-concept software created by security researchers the number of unique samples is on…
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