Practice Makes (Im)Perfect: A Look Back at Benchmarking Practices for Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks

Microarchitectural side-channel research has grown at an exceptional pace in recent years, increasing the need for rigorous and meaningful benchmarking. Early attack papers typically relied on indirect proxies, such as covert-channel bandwidth or key-recovery on naive AES and RSA implementations,...

TDXRay: Microarchitectural Side-Channel Analysis of Intel TDX for Real-World Workloads

Affected Products AMD EPYC™ Series Processors AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processors AMD EPYC™ 8004 Series Processors AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Processors AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series Processors AMD EPYC™ Embedded Series Processors AMD EPYC™ Embedded 7003 AMD EPYC™ Embedded 8004 AMD EPYC™ Embedded 9004 AMD EPYC™...

Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-000414)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-000414 advisory. Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling MLPDS: Load ports on some microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially...