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Intel is making hardware changes to 8th gen processors to combat Spectre and Meltdown issues
by Pradeep
9 months
To protect customers from vulnerabilities referred to as “speculative execution side-channel attacks”, companies including Microsoft, Intel and others are working together to plan and deliver updates. Microsoft has released up...
Microsoft announces $250,000 bounty program for Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities
by Pradeep
9 months
Microsoft yesterday announced a limited time bounty program for speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. Speculative Execution Side Channels are a hardware vulnerability class that affects CPUs from multiple manufacture...
Microsoft expands availability of Windows security updates to fix Spectre and Meltdown issues
by Pradeep
9 months
Microsoft today announced that they are expanding the availability of Windows security updates to fix Spectre and Meltdown hardware-based vulnerabilities. Microsoft also mentioned that they have removed the anti-virus compatibilit...
Spectre-related vulnerability cracks open Intel’s Software Guard Extension like a nut
by Surur
10 months
Intel’s Software Gaurd Extension (SGX) is Intel’s technology for application developers who are seeking to protect select code and data from disclosure or modification by creating secure enclaves, which are protected...
Intel tries again with new Spectre patch for SkyLake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake processors
by Surur
10 months
Nearly two months after the Meltdown and Spectre processor flaws were revealed, and a month after Intel recommended users avoid their first round of processor patches, Intel is back with a new set of patches for Skylake, Kaby Lake...
Intel releases new Spectre patches for Skylake-based PCs
by Pradeep
10 months
Last month, Intel pulled back its Spectre patches for some platforms as it caused rebooting and other unexpected issues in PCs. Intel today announced updated Spectre patches for Skylake-based PCs. They have released them to OEM c...
Microsoft issues emergency patch to disable the last emergency Spectre patch
by Surur
11 months
The patching of the Speculative Execution vulnerability has not been going too well recently, with Intel telling users to avoid the patch they released to OEMs as it was causing reboots. Now Microsoft has itself issued an emergen...
PSA: It may be a good idea to delay your PC purchase till the end of the year
by Surur
11 months
Intel may have just suggested sophisticated buyers wait till the end of the year to buy their next PC. They have announced that future versions of their processors will no longer be vulnerable to the speculative execution vulner...
Intel says that performance impact of the Spectre fix can be as much as 25% for some workloads
by Pradeep
11 months
Last week, Microsoft published its initial report on the performance impact that will be seen on the Windows PCs after installing the Meltdown and Spectre security issue related fixes. Microsoft said that PCs running Windows 10 on...
AMD starts delivering their own Meltdown and Spectre patches
by Surur
11 months
While processor manufacturer AMD initially claimed their chips were not vulnerable to Speculative Execution flaws, later research showed that this was not completely true and that flaws in Speculative Execution could allow hackers...