by Anmol
2 years
Microsoft has been working on releasing 19H1 soon and while the company has made several changes to the OS as well as added new features, there are some which might have gone unnoticed. The new features spotted on Windows 10 are l...
by Pradeep
2 years
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...
by Pradeep
2 years
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...
by Pradeep
2 years
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...
by Surur
2 years
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...
by Surur
2 years
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...
by Pradeep
3 years
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...
by Surur
3 years
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...
by Surur
3 years
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...
by Pradeep
3 years
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...