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Vulnerabilities in the TPM 2.0 reference implementation code

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TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption

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Why Xen Wasn't Hit by RETBleed on Intel CPUs

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ÆPIC Leak: Architecturally leaking uninitialized data from the microarchitecture [pdf]

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Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling

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Hertzbleed Attack

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Intel Finds Bug in AMD's Spectre Mitigation – AMD Issues Fix

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The AMD Branch (Mis)Predictor Part 2: Where No CPU Has Gone Before

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Intel Hardware allows activation of test or debug logic at runtime

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Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization

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Microsoft Edge Experimenting with a Super Duper Secure Mode

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Static Calls in Linux 5.10

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V0LTpwn: Attacking x86 Processor Integrity from Software

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New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave

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Plundervolt: Software-Based Fault Injection Attacks Against Intel SGX [pdf]

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Unexpected Page Fault In Virtualized Environment Advisory

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More Intel speculative execution vulnerabilities

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Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by silent Windows update

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The Semantics of Transactions and Weak Memory in x86, Power, ARM, and C++

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New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011

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Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

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AMD products are not susceptible to SPOILER exploit

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Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

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Hacking into a CPU’S Microcode (2017)

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Issues relating to a bug in Intel cpus

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Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs

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Better slow than sorry – VirtualBox 3D acceleration considered harmful

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OpenBSD chief de Raadt says no easy fix for new Intel CPU bug

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Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance

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More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Execution issue

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LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack

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Vulnerability of Speculative Processors to Cache Timing Side-Channel Mechanism

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AWS Statement: Processor Speculative Execution Research Disclosure

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When F00F bug hit 20 years ago, Intel reacted the same way

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Clkscrew: Exposing the perils of security-oblivious energy management

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The DrK Attack: De-randomizing Kernel ASLR

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An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation

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Is Your VirtualBox Reading Your E-Mail? Reconstruction of FrameBuffers from VRAM

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Rewrites of the STM core model – again

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'Reptar', a new CPU vulnerability

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Google's response to Reptar CPU vulnerability

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Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers

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Recovering a dm-crypt Encryption Key with drgn

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LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory

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