Meet the latest vulnerability in your multi-threaded CPU: PortSmash TechSpot

Multi-threading creates two logical cores for each physical core, but the two logical cores can see a surprising amount of what the other is doing. PortSmash based malware is designed to operate on the parallel logical core to the targeted, legitimate process. It then records all the data that leaks...





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