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Newly discovered flaws in Apple chips leak secrets in Safari and Chrome

New vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apple’s A- and M-series chips, potentially leaking sensitive data like credit card information and locations from Chrome and Safari browsers. The exploits, named FLOP and SLAP, leverage the chips’ speculative execution feature, which predicts the flow of data in order to improve performance. The attacks can read off-limits memory contents and access sensitive JavaScript code.

Source: arstechnica.com –

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