With a new Apple security flaw in the news, it's a good time to revisit the question of what speculative execution is and how it works. This topic received a great deal of discussion a few years ago ...

A new speculative execution attack named "TIKTAG" targets ARM's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) to leak data with over a 95% chance of success, allowing hackers to bypass the security feature. The ...

There are two new speculative execution attacks that impact recent Apple chips, according to data shared today by Georgia Tech students that discovered the vulnerabilities — as noted by MacRumors.

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution has been discovered. CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution that are ...

Recently, a team of Korean researchers from Samsung, Seoul National University, and Georgia Institute of Technology have tested a new speculative execution attack called TIKTAG. Quite surprisingly, ...

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Intel is once again in the crosshairs of a fresh speculative execution exploit, this time dubbed "Branch Privilege Injection." The new vulnerability, revealed by researchers at ETH Zurich's COMSEC ...

A new technical paper titled “Lost and Found in Speculation: Hybrid Speculative Vulnerability Detection” was published by researchers at Technical University of Darmstadt and Texas A&M University. “We ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) in ...

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