A computer exploit exploits a system vulnerability to attack processor architectures including
ARM, AMD, and Intel. The main CPU architectures nowadays are 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit …

The Meltdown and spectre holes are two security deficiencies which can provide access to
personal data for hackers and can potentially affect performances of Linux, Mac systems …

Recently, security researchers have found two hardware security vulnerabilities namely
Spectre and Meltdown, related to computer memory. They are not singular, many variants of …

Microprocessors such as those found in PCs and smartphones are complex in their design
and nature. In recent years, an increasing number of security vulnerabilities have been …

This paper first reviews the Spectre and Meltdown processor security vulnerabilities that
were revealed during January–October 2018 and that allow the extraction of protected …

The discovery of hardware vulnerabilities has increasingly become more frequent in recent
years. In the wake of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks, architectural security research has …

These days processors are becoming faster and faster. This translates indirectly into a
significant improvement in the quality of life. However, there is a price to be paid; this …

Historically, performance has been the most important feature when optimizing computer
hardware. Modern processors are so highly optimized that every cycle of computation time …

This report is a qualitative study of security-critical processor bugs observed in AMD
processors. Processor technology updates expand hardware feature sets which, similar to …

The current electronic-economy is booming, electronic-wallets, encrypted virtual-money,
mobile payments, and other new generations of economic instruments are springing up. As …