speculative execution
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Researchers Find New Ways To Exploit Meltdown And Spectre Vulnerabilities In Modern CPUs
In the past few weeks, the entire information security industry has grown very anxious about Meltdown and Spectre, two classes of exploits that can be used to manipulate vulnerabilities in the way many varieties of modern processors (but especially Intel ones) handle a performance-improving technique called speculative execution and extract hidden system data. While numerous…