Ars Technica rapporterar att Intel kommer att börja bygga in skydd får så kallat malware i en del av sina framtida processorer. För att åstadkomma detta så kommer Intel att börja applicera en teknik som kallas för Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) vilken Intel har utvecklat tillsammans med Microsoft sedan 2016. Art Technica skriver om CET:

"Control-Flow Enforcement Technology, or CET, represents a fundamental change in the way processors execute instructions from applications such as Web browsers, email clients, or PDF readers. Jointly developed by Intel and Microsoft, CET is designed to thwart a technique known as return-oriented programming, which hackers use to bypass anti-exploit measures software developers introduced about a decade ago.

These defenses were designed to significantly lessen the damage software exploits could inflict by introducing changes to system memory that prevented the execution of malicious code. Even when successfully targeting a buffer overflow or other vulnerability, the exploit resulted only in a system or application crash, rather than a fatal system compromise."

Intels första processor som kommer att få CET inbyggt är en kommande processor som går under namnet "Tiger Lake", en processor som även driver Intels experimentella Horseshoe Bend-laptop med en jättestor böjbar skärm som vi skrev om tidigare i år.