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Mar 2, 2022 · Information Security

Understanding Spectre: Speculative Execution, Side‑Channel Attacks, and Browser Mitigations

This article explains the Spectre hardware vulnerability, how it leverages speculative execution and side‑channel attacks to read arbitrary memory, and reviews the browser‑level defenses such as cache policies, timer reduction, rel="noopener", COOP, COEP and CORB that aim to mitigate its impact.