Fourth variant of Spectre and Meltdown identified by Microsoft and Google
Attackers could steal information from open browser tabs by using CVE-2018-3639

Fourth variant of Spectre and Meltdown identified by Microsoft and Google
The long tail of Spectre and Meltdown continue to plague the chip industry, with a new vulnerability just found by researchers at Google and Microsoft. It has been assigned the code CVE-2018-3639. Like...
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