Category: Vulnerability

SplitSpectre

Researchers find a new class Spectre attack, SplitSpectre

Researchers at Northeastern University and IBM Research have discovered a new variant of the Spectre CPU vulnerability that can be leveraged through browser-based code. An important difference between the new vulnerability known as SplitSpectre and other Spectre variants is...

Rowhammer attacks

New Rowhammer attacks may bypass ECC protection

Row hammer (also written as rowhammer) is an unintended side effect in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) that causes memory cells to leak their charges and interact electrically between themselves, possibly leaking or changing the contents of nearby memory rows that were not addressed in...