• New version of Chrome guards against Spectre-like attacks, but eats more memory

    Posted on July 13, 2018 at 06:02 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    We still haven’t seen a commercial implementation of the Meltdown or Spectre security vectors, but Google’s had this “site isolation” technology in the works for six years. This week, they flipped the switch. Now, your copy of Chrome on Windows will gobble even more memory. But you’ll be protected from Spectre attacks coming from the most likely source — your browser.

    Gregg Keizer in Computerworld:

    Google has switched on Site Isolation for the vast majority of Chrome users – 99% of them by the search giant’s account.

    Good article. Check it out.

    Nipping Spectre in the browser sure beats the all-on assault that’s unfolding in the rest of the ecosystem. I continue to maintain that the first major Meltdown and Spectre infections we’ll see in the wild will come through the browser.

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