Because of the way computer memory works ... the vulnerabilities by altering or disabling how software code makes use of the speculative execution and caching features built into the underlying ...

Intel published last week a research paper detailing a new type of computer memory ... flexibility to software" by moving most of the mechanism that prevents speculative execution attacks at ...

Microsoft introduced Data Execution Prevention or DEP ... If there is an instance of a program on your computer using memory incorrectly, DEP notices it, closes the program and notifies you.

Data Execution Prevention ... attempts to run code from protected memory locations and help prevent attacks. If DEP keeps closing the same program, is my computer under attack?

A 1980s-era computer ... program assigns each term a fixed amount of space on the hard disk. This technique lets the software more easily keep track of where the pieces of an equation are. It also ...

The new attack was discovered by researchers at Tsinghua University, the University of Maryland, and a computer ... execution that makes it possible to extract secret data from user memory space ...