Intel faces more ghosting from Spectre
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Call in more Ghostbusters

Top boffins from several universities have discovered a new Spectre-like method of extracting secrets from Chipzilla’s latest processors.

Apple invents a unique hardware bug which is a bit like Spectre
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I bet you thought all the hardware bugs had been invented already


Fruit and nutty Cargo Cult Apple has extended its innovative software bug development to hardware and come up with its own unique flavour of Spectre.

Intel claims that AMD suffers from new Spectre BHB vulnerability
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Its patches have been borked since 2018

Intel has been claiming that AMD is not as safe as is claimed after news of a fresh Spectre BHB vulnerability that only impacts Intel and Arm processors emerged this week.

Spectre is back from the dead
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Thursday, 10 March 2022 12:20

Spectre is back from the dead


Harder to kill than Dracula

The embarrassing defect in Intel CPUs Spectre appears to have made a comeback.

Intel will have to face the music on defective chips
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Fails to get Meltdown and Spectre cases thrown out

Chipzilla will have to go to court and defend itself against claims it knew its microprocessors were defective and failed to tell customers.

Spectre gets weaponised
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Tuesday, 02 March 2021 11:59

Spectre gets weaponised


Right to bear arms

A fully weaponised exploit for the Spectre CPU vulnerability was uploaded on the malware-scanning website VirusTotal last month, marking the first time a working exploit capable of doing actual damage has entered the public domain.

Exorcising Spectre needs a new angle
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Friday, 22 February 2019 12:02

Exorcising Spectre needs a new angle


CPUs need to be overhauled not software fixes

Google researchers have warned that it will be challenging to avoid Spectre bugs unless CPUs are dramatically overhauled.

Latest Spectre patches bring big performance hits to Linux 4.20 kernel
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From two to up to 35 percent in some tests

Spectre and Meltdown fixes have been slowly coming for most of this year, and according to results, the performance hit on Intel CPUs in the latest Linux 4.20 kernel can be over 30 percent.

Windows 10 exorcises Spectre
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Monday, 22 October 2018 12:28

Windows 10 exorcises Spectre


Uses Google's Retpoline Patch

Software king of the world Microsoft is including Google's mitigation for the Spectre Variant 2 speculative execution side-channel attack in the next release of Windows 10.

AMD pushes server upgrades
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Thursday, 18 October 2018 10:20

AMD pushes server upgrades


Targeting owners of ancient kit

AMD is leaning on its channel to support its push in the server market as the firm looks to challenge for market share and rattle Intel's cage.