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Old 2nd November 2018
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Say hello to PortSmash (CVE-2018-5407), the new side-channel attack on HTT:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-...vulnerability/
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Vulnerability confirmed on Skylake and Kaby Lake CPU series. Researchers suspect AMD processors are also impacted.
OpenBSD gets mentioned, too:
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Following the discovery of TLBleed, the OpenBSD project decided to disable support for Intel's HT technology in upcoming versions of the OpenBSD operating system, on the grounds of security.
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