Detection of the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
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Researchers: Erez Israel, Daniel Marx, Yoav Alon, Aviv Gafni and Ben Omelchenko Last week, two publications regarding a pair of vulnerabilities named individually by their publishers as Meltdown and Spectre sent shockwaves through the cyber-security ecosystem. Using side-channel attacks, these vulnerabilities allow an attacker to break the security that lies at the core of a […]
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