Topic: spectre

SD Times news digest: IDC’s IoT spending predictions, SafeSpec, and F-Secure acquires MWR InfoSecurity

Market research company IDC has released the latest Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide, predicting that IoT spending will experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.6 percent during the 2017-20122 forecast period. It expects spending to reach $1.2 trillion by 2022. The forecast also shows that the consumer section with lead IoT spending … continue reading

Google creates software protection technique to ward off Spectre bug

As companies scramble to put out patches and fixes for the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, Google has come up with a new technique to help developers mitigate the risks. The company has developed Retpoline, a binary modification technique designed to mitigate risks against Spectre’s branch target injection attack. “‘Retpoline’ sequences are a software construct … continue reading

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