A vulnerability called PortSmash or CVE-2018-5407 has joined the list of other dangerous side-channel vulnerabilities discovered in the past year, including older ones like Meltdown, Spectre and Foreshadow. This side channel vulnerability resides Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology. This vulnerability allows an attacker to see sensitive protected data like passwords and keys from other processes running in the same CPU core with simultaneous multi-threading feature enabled.
Will something like the T2 chip that apple makes on the Mac prevent issues like this?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-cpus-impacted-by-new-portsmash-side-channel-vulnerability/
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