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Understanding Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerability – Part 3

In this blog post, we are going to talk about spectre vulnerability and how does this vulnerability affect current systems all around the globe. As already discussed in previous blog posts, the processor uses speculative execution along with branch predictor to speculatively execute instructions for better utilization of CPU cycles.

Mridul Verma security, Technology 1 Comment March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 5 Minutes

Understanding Spectre and MeltDown Vulnerabilities – Part 1

In this blog series, we will go through one of the biggest security vulnerabilities of recent times i.e. Spectre and Meltdown. This article is mostly centered around understanding the concepts which will be necessary for then understanding the internals of these two vulnerabilities.

Mridul Verma security, Technology 3 Comments March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 6 Minutes

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