In the fallout of the discovery of Spectre and Meltdown, companies have been racing to patch vulnerabilities. Along with these patches comes the expectation of performance hits, and yesterday, Intel ...
Google's 'moonshot' fix for the hardest-to-solve of the three Meltdown and Spectre CPU attacks seems to have paid off. That fix, called Retpoline, addresses Variant 2 of the two Spectre CPU attacks ...
New variants of Spectre have been discovered by Microsoft and Google, which allow attackers to read privileged data. While mitigations will be available soon, they will result in a performance hit.