8 Big Processor Vulnerabilities in 2018 by Ericka Chickowski
Since the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities knocked the glow off of the new year, 2018 has been the year of the CPU bug. Security researchers have been working in overdrive examining processors for design flaws, firmware bugs, and other vulnerabilities that put an entire computing architecture at risk.
They haven’t come up empty-handed.
Here’s what we’ve had to contend with this year on the CPU vulnerability front — and what we can expect in a couple of weeks when new research hits the stage at Black Hat.
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Among those Chickowski dicusses:
BranchScope, Spectre Variants 3a and 4 (breaching barrier between cloud instances on the same CPU, think the IC’s planned cloud), not to leave AMD Ryzen chips unnoticed: Ryzenfall, Masterkey, Fallout, and Chimera, and others.
And the year is a little more than half over!
Enjoy!