Intel's hardware-based safeguards against attacks exploiting the Spectre data leaking vulnerabilities impacting its processors could be bypassed by new Branch Predictor Race Conditions, reports The Register.
CNBC reports that Apple's appeal against the UK government's order to create a "backdoor" allowing access to encrypted iPhone user data will be heard in public after the country's Investigatory Powers Tribunal dismissed the government's attempt to conduct the hearing behind closed doors due to national security risks.
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Included in the affected CPE Series router models were VMG1312-B10A, VMG1312-B10B, VMG1312-B10E, VMG3312-B10A, VMG3313-B10A, VMG3926-B10B, VMG4325-B10A, VMG4380-B10A, VMG8324-B10A, VMG8924-B10A, SBG3300, and SBG3500, according to Zyxel.
The attacks exploit flaws in speculative execution, the same fundamental weakness that enabled attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown to remotely leak sensitive information from web browsers.
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