ETH Zurich researchers found a new Spectre-BTI attack called VMSCAPE that lets a VM steal host data It affects cloud setups using KVM/QEMU on AMD and Intel CPUs, bypassing existing defenses They ...

Facepalm: Spectre-based flaws are still causing some security issues in recent Intel and AMD CPUs. A newly developed attack can bypass protection "barriers" OEMs added to avoid personal data leakage.

Intel said Thursday its patches for vulnerable processors are causing some computers using its older chips to reboot more often. It’s the latest buggy update since the Spectre and Meltdown revelations ...