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Just when news of Spectre and Meltdown has seemingly died down, we're now hearing of a fresh round of exploits that might affect Intel processors. A total of 8 new vulnerabilities have been discovered and are being dubbed Spectre Next Generation, or Spectre-NG for short. Each of the eight vulnerabilities have been assigned their own Common Vulnerability Enumerator (CVE) designation, and each will need to be patched separately according to German publication c't. Intel, which has been notified of Spectre-NG, acknowledges that four of the new exploits are considered "high risk", while the other four are "medium risk". At least one of the vulnerabilities is reportedly even more...
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