Speculative execution was first theorized at the end of the last century. It works on the idea that the processor should never be idle when the computer is running. This requires guesswork because ...

Earlier this week, a team of security researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum presented a pair of papers on two side-channel speculative execution attacks ...

These attacks, known as FLOP and SLAP, exploit Apple's speculative execution—a feature designed to speed up processing—causing the CPU to reveal confidential data before correcting itself.

Both side channels are the result of the chips’ use of speculative execution, a performance optimization that improves speed by predicting the control flow the CPUs should take and following ...

There are two new speculative execution attacks that impact recent Apple chips, according to data shared today by Georgia Tech students that discovered the vulnerabilities — as noted by MacRumors.

When these guesses are wrong, they accidentally open the door for hackers. SLAP (speculative execution via Load Address Prediction) lets attackers access private data, like email content ...

The flaws stem from faulty speculative execution implementation, the underlying cause of notorious attacks like Spectre and Meltdown. The FLOP and SLAP side-channel attacks target features aimed ...