In case you’re not already sick of Spectre… Boffins demo Speculator tool for sniffing out data-leaking CPU holes

From theregister.co.uk

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Analysis You’ve patched your Intel, AMD, Power, and Arm gear to crush those pesky data-leaking speculative execution processor bugs, right? Good, because IBM eggheads in Switzerland have teamed up with Northeastern University boffins in the US to cook up Spectre exploit code they’ve dubbed SplitSpectre.

SplitSpectre is a proof-of-concept built from Speculator, the team’s automated CPU bug-discovery tool, which the group plans to release as open-source software. Their work is described here in an academic paper emitted earlier this week.

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