Hosted on MSN14d
Apple silicon is vulnerable to side-channel speculative execution attacks "FLOP" and "SLAP"
SLAP, or Data Speculation Attacks via Load Address Prediction, functions by exploiting Apple Silicon's Load Address Predictor, which guesses the next memory address the CPU will use. By exploiting ...
Yahoo14d
Apple silicon is vulnerable to side-channel speculative execution attacks "FLOP" and "SLAP"
The researchers do note that attacks actually using these exploits have yet to be spotted in the wild after initially discovering and reporting them to Apple in March (SLAP) and September (FLOP ...