Speculative execution has caused headaches going way back. [Bruce Dawson] tells one such story he experienced back in 2005. (Warning: ads on page may autoplay video.) It’s centered around Xbox ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Academic researchers found two new speculative execution flaws The pair are affecting M2 and M3 processors Apple has acknowledged the flaws, and said it would fix it Apple devices powered with the ...

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 ...