"Eliminating Infamous Security Threats"
A new solution to speculative memory side-channel attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre has been proposed by researchers from Uppsala University, NTNU, and the University of Murcia. The security vulnerability used to execute speculative memory side-channel attacks derive from the prediction of future instructions by high-performance microprocessors. Misspeculations leave traces of information behind that could be exploited by such attacks to retrieve sensitive information. Unlike previous security solutions to these attacks, the new solution increases security without sacrificing the performance that users demand of their computer systems. This article continues to discuss speculative memory side-channel attacks and the new method to address these attacks.