LABScon Replay | Spectre Strikes Again: Introducing the Firmware Edition

The excitement surrounding speculative execution attacks may have subsided, but sadly, such threats remain. Binarly Research has discovered a vast attack surface still vulnerable to known issues like Spectre v1 and v2 on AMD silicon. Ineffective mitigations and the complexity of validation negatively impact the AMD device ecosystem.

While the industry is currently concentrating on constructing confidential computing infrastructure, foundational design problems reveal a lack of basic security at the hardware level. This discovery was made possible due to the …

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