Tag: Hyper-Threading
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Intel Performance Hit 5x Harder Than AMD After Spectre, Meltdown Patches
Ever since Spectre and Meltdown broke in January 2018, we’ve known that the combined impact of patching these security issues would …
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Fresh Spectre Vulnerabilities May Force Cloud Providers to Disable Intel Hyper-Threading
Last year, when the news of the Spectre processor vulnerability first surfaced, researchers warned that it could be exploited in multiple …
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Intel: You don’t need to disable Hyper-Threading to protect against the ZombieLoad CPU exploit
If you’re in a panic to figure out how to turn off Intel’s Hyper-Threading feature to prevent ZombieLoad, the latest Spectre-like CPU …
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PortSmash attack steals secrets from Intel chips on the side
Researchers have developed an exploit that uses a feature in Intel chips to steal secret cryptographic keys. The proof of concept code, …
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PortSmash – A New Side Channel Vulnerability in SMT/Hyper-Threading That Allows Attackers To Steal Sensitive Data
Researchers discovered a new critical side-channel vulnerability dubbed PortSmash that can allow attackers to steal from other simultaneous …
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New Intel CPU Flaw Exploits Hyper-Threading to Steal Encrypted Data
A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to …
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