The Looming Spectre of a Meltdown

After a flurry of rumors and speculation over the Christmas and New Year period, we’ve finally been given sight of two new whitepapers describing attacks named Spectre and Meltdown and a blog post from Google Project Zero describing a range of side-channel attacks against recent CPUs.

Article Link: https://blogs.forcepoint.com/security-labs/looming-spectre-meltdown