Walt Mankowski via plug on 4 Jun 2023 14:00:42 -0700 |
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[PLUG] Surprise: A Small Change Leads to Big Results for Computer Security |
Here's some good security news for a change. Researchers at UCSD and Purdue have completely reverse-engineered the conditional branch predictor for all of Intel’s flagship processors, going back more than a decade. It can potentially shut down an entire class of Spectre attacks. https://today.ucsd.edu/story/a-small-change-leads-to-big-results-for-computer-security ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug