A new speculative execution flaw called Retbleed affects many AMD and Intel chips running any modern operating system.
Intel's new Control-Flow Enforcement Technology will be built into its forthcoming Tiger Lake processors and integrated with Windows 10.
Researchers have identified yet another speculative execution attack method against Intel processors.
Security researchers at Graz University of Technology in Austria discovered the fixes for the ZombieLoad speculative execution attacks on Intel processors were not completely effective. The researchers have disclosed a new variant that works on Intel processors that have hardware mitigations in place.
A new attack that exploits a weakness in the DDIO feature of some Intel chips can leak sensitive data, including SSH keystrokes.