Spectre and Meltdown: A new breed of vulnerability

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So far, Spectre has been proven on Intel, AMD, IBM, and ARM-based processors. The Meltdown vulnerability similarly attacks optimizations in new CPUs by exploiting a race condition that exists between memory access and privilege checking during the instruction processing phase. Because most OSs ...

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