Another Meltdown, Spectre security scare: Data-leaking holes riddle Intel, AMD, Arm chips

CPU slingers insist existing defenses will stop attacks - but eggheads disagree

Computer security researchers have uncovered yet another set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that allow a local attacker to gain access to privileged data, fulfilling predictions made when the Spectre and Meltdown flaws were reported at the beginning of the year."