Google’s Chrome devs ponder limited options for thwarting Spectre attacks
Site isolation looks to be the only mitigation but it’s not perfect.
Site isolation looks to be the only mitigation but it’s not perfect.
Chip makers release patches but they'll customers will need to choose between security and performance.
Intel dials back Spectre patching after weighing up benefits.
AMD claims it's patches will have no impact on CPU performance, distinguishing the bugs from the Meltdown and Spectre issues.
Intel wraps up Meltdown-Spectre patching for all CPUs released in the past five years and has redesigned new Cascade Lake CPUs to mitigate the attacks.