Intel CPU cores remain vulnerable to Spectre data-leaking attacks, say academics at VU Amsterdam. We’re told mitigations put in place at the software and silicon level by the x86 giant to thwart exploitation of its processors’ speculative execution can be bypassed, allowing malware or rogue users on a vulnerable machine to steal sensitive information – such as passwords and keys – out of kernel memory and other areas of RAM that should be off limits.

Source: The Register