‘Foreshadow” and other vulnerabilities in Intel processors can be exploited to steal sensitive information stored inside personal computers or personal clouds.

Intel patches three flaws that could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems.

A high-severity flaw could result in attackers intercepting information, elevation of privilege and/or denial of service.

The most recent Spectre-class flaw targets a component in CPUs called the return stack buffer.

These vulnerabilities have existed for over 20 years, and we are not even close to closing the door on these significant risks.

A new feature called site isolation is being tapped to protect Chrome users against Spectre.

The newly-discovered Spectre variants can be exploited to uncover confidential data via microarchitectural side channels in CPUs.

The new hardware-based protections Intel announced earlier in March it was embedding into new chips will only protect against Spectre and Meltdown – but not the newly disclosed Variant 4, sources said.

Yet another speculative execution side channel flaw has been disclosed in processors – and security experts warn that more may be out there.

Intel on Monday acknowledged that its processors are vulnerable to another Spectre-like speculative execution side channel flaw that could allow attackers to access information.