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The tag 'john hazen' on WindowsForum.com is associated with content about speculative execution side-channel attacks and their mitigation in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. A thread discusses vulnerabilities published by Google Project Zero that can be exploited via JavaScript in browsers, potentially allowing attackers to access memory. Microsoft issued security updates (KB4056890) to mitigate these attacks, altering the behavior of Edge and Internet Explorer 11. The tag appears in the context of browser security and Microsoft's response to these vulnerabilities.
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Mitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution side-channel attacks. These techniques can be used via JavaScript code running in the browser, which may allow attackers to gain access to memory in the attacker’s process...- News
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