Even After Patching, Meltdown & Spectre Continue to be a Big Deal
First, a recap of the vulnerability For the first time, performance-enhancing features of most modern processors (known as out-of-order superscalar execution, speculative prediction, and HW caching) were discovered to contain (as a unit) a flaw that allows unauthorized disclosure of information. The fact that this flaw is at the processor level differentiates it from other […]
