Foreshadow: Discovery casts dark pall on computer security
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 09:13
in Mathematics & Economics
Two international teams of security researchers have uncovered Foreshadow, a new variant of the hardware vulnerability Meltdown announced earlier in the year, that can be exploited to bypass Intel Processors’ secure regions to access memory and data. The vulnerability affects Intel’s Software Guard Extension (SGX) technology, a new feature in modern Intel CPUs which allows […]