"ZombieLoad": a new set of speculative-execution attacks

Posted May 15, 2019 13:11 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
In reply to: "ZombieLoad": a new set of speculative-execution attacks by roc
Parent article: "ZombieLoad": a new set of speculative-execution attacks

We have basically only 2 web rendering engines and js engines, and firefox is probably going away.

"ZombieLoad": a new set of speculative-execution attacks

Posted May 15, 2019 19:21 UTC (Wed) by samth (guest, #1290) [Link]

There are definitely 3 of each: Blink/v8, WebKit/JSC, and Gecko/SpiderMonkey. Even if you think Blink and WebKit are "the same" (which is wrong) JSC and v8 have no common heritage.

"ZombieLoad": a new set of speculative-execution attacks

Posted May 15, 2019 22:39 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

There are 3 of each. Firefox need not go away; it's competitive enough that people are switching to it from Chrome, though the situation is still very challenging. Defeatist attitudes definitely won't help.