On Monday, cybersecurity specialists revealed two new vulnerabilities in the operating system of Linux that, if effectively abused, could allow assailants to go around mitigations for theoretical assaults like Spectre and acquire sensitive data from kernel memory. Found by Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s Threat Hunter group, the vulnerabilities/ Linux bugs — followed as CVE-2020-27171 and … Continue reading Linux Bugs enable hackers to bypass Spectre attack mitigations