Spectre

Spectre is a class of hardware vulnerabilities that exploit speculative execution in modern CPUs to allow unauthorized access to sensitive data.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news because a new variant has been discovered that affects JIT engines and RISC-V chips, bypassing previous defenses.

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