Demystifying CPU Microcode: Vulnerabilities, Updates, and
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Attacks against low-level CPU architecture popped up on most tech people’s radar after the introduction of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities were made public. Since then there have been several more vulnerabilities affecting both Intel and AMD CPUs in the same category of speculative execution bugs. The goal of this article is to provide a […]
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