Spectre, Meltdown researchers unveil 7 more speculative execution attacks

Ars Technica ---------- Back at the start of the year, a set of attacks that leveraged the speculative execution capabilities of modern high-performance processors was revealed. The attacks were named Meltdown and Spectre. Since then, numerous variants of these attacks have been devised. In tandem, a range of mitigation techniques has been created to enable at-risk software, operating systems, and hypervisor platforms to protect against these attacks. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.