Hunting speculative information leaks with Revizor

Spectre and Meltdown are two security vulnerabilities that affect the vast majority of CPUs in use today. CPUs, or central processing units, act as the brains of a computer, directing the functions of its other components. By targeting a feature of the CPU implementation that optimizes performance, attackers could access sensitive data previously considered inaccessible.  […]

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