Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more

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Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more
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Oh no.

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Anyway.

Run AMD.

...All Ryzen and Epyc processors were found to have a very similar bug not too long ago, it's actually addressed in the article. You might want to read it...

Here is a good write-up of Zenbleed for the Ryzen 2 and up vulnerability. It uses similar register optimisation and speculative execution to get the same effect.

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