{"id":288602,"date":"2018-12-05T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=288602"},"modified":"2018-12-05T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T15:29:36","slug":"new-spectre-like-cpu-vulnerability-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/288602-new-spectre-like-cpu-vulnerability-discovered.html","title":{"rendered":"New Spectre-like CPU vulnerability discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have <a href=\"https:\/\/domino.research.ibm.com\/library\/cyberdig.nsf\/papers\/D66E56756964D8998525835200494B74\/$File\/RZ3933.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>discovered<\/strong><\/a> a new variation of the Spectre CPU vulnerability which is easier to exploit than the original security flaw.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability is named SplitSpectre, and is reportedly a variation of the original Spectre CPU security flaw which can be exploited via browser-based code.<\/p>\n<p>While the CPU microarchitecture is still the target of the attack, a SplitSpectre attack is reportedly even easier to execute as part of the exploitation can be run within the attacker&#8217;s code instead of within the victim&#8217;s kernel.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers successfully exploited this vulnerability by attacking systems with Intel Haswell and Skylake CPUs in addition to AMD Ryzen chips.<\/p>\n<p>These researchers also created a tool named Speculator, which measures microarchitectural characteristics and examines a system for flaws.<\/p>\n<p>This tool will be released as an open-source utility for vulnerability checking, the researchers stated.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/281211-future-windows-10-update-to-soften-spectre-performance-hit.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Future Windows 10 update to soften Spectre performance hit<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a new variation of the Spectre CPU vulnerability which is easier to exploit than the original security flaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":243488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4714,40218,31934,48076,56052,56050],"class_list":["post-288602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-haswell","tag-ryzen","tag-skylake","tag-spectre","tag-splitspectre","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288604,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288602\/revisions\/288604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}