There has been an ever-increasing need for CPUs, both commercial and consumer, to perform faster. In order to do so, certain aspects have been built into processors. While increasing performance, multithreading and speculative execution have left CPUs and networks around the world at risk. Unlike the speculative execution risk of Spectre and Meltdown, a multi-threading […]

Last week Las Vegas hosted the International Consumer Electronics Show. Although a technology conference focused on the biggest and brightest tech for consumers, security took center stage this year. Namely, manufacturers attempted to answer some questions about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Though the vulnerabilities were discovered mid- last year, the processor weakness that affects […]