First Spectre, now BranchScope — another vulnerability in Intel processors

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Researchers from four universities discovered a new vulnerability in Intel's processors dubbed as BranchScope. The problem resides in the method a processor uses to predict where its current computational task will end, aka speculative execution. By exploiting this flaw, hackers with access to the PC ...

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