New Spectre attack variants leave AMD, Intel, and Arm processors exposed
What you need to know Three years ago, Spectre attacks sent companies such as Microsoft, AMD, and Intel into patching frenzies. A new research paper posits that Spectre isn't done endangering computers yet. The paper cites that Spectre counters will come at the cost of CPU performance. Update May 3, 2021 at 4:05 pm ET: Intel has provided the following statement. Intel reviewed the report and informed researchers that existing mitigations were not being bypassed and that this scenario is addressed in our secure coding guidance. Software following our guidance already have protections against i...