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The Spectre and Meltdown flaws were enough to make people uncomfortable, a report published by the Wall Street Journal sheds more light on the matter. The publication, claiming sources, reported that Intel informed some of their customers about the vulnerabilities before the US government including Microsoft, Amazon, and Chinese companies Alibaba and Lenovo. However, Intel didn’t […]
Microsoft has started pushing a Windows update to disable the microcode patches released earlier for the Spectre variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715) Branch Target Injection vulnerability. The counter patch comes almost a week after Intel asked OEMs and customers to stop deploying the security patches as “they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior.” Until […]
It would have been strange if Intel’s fourth-quarter had gone without the Chipzilla justifying its stance on the future of Meltdown and Spectre bugs. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich tried to assure investors during the earnings call by saying that his company is working “around the clock” with its partners and there is a lot more to […]
Fixing the chip security holes Meltdown and Spectre will take a long, long time, but Linus Torvalds and Intel developers are slowly moving to answers for Linux. Spectre and Meltdown are major design flaws in modern CPUs. While they’re present in almost all recent processors, because Intel chips are so widely used, Intel is taking […]
Earlier this month, Intel promised they would fix around 90% of the 5-year-old machines within the coming days. But the patches themselves increased problems for the users by leaving their computer with rebooting issues. Now, the silicon giant has addressed the problem in a new post and advised users not to install security patches currently available […]
The CEO of one of the world’s prominent chipmakers, Brian Krzanich of Intel, took to the platform at a keynote at CES to say a few messages about the news before launching into his planned publications covering areas like automotive, AI and entertainment. “I want to thank the business for coming together to address the recent security, […]
It has been a matter of days when we found out about the flaws in AMD, ARM and Intel’s computer microchips that allowed attackers to carry out Spectre and Meltdown attacks. Since these microchips are widely used in almost all desktops/laptops, smartphones and tablets, therefore, the discovery sent out shockwaves among high-profile tech giants including […]
When The Register broke the massive side-channel attack flaws pertaining to Intel and other CPUs, it was reported that the users should expect a significant slowdown after installing the patches. Now, Microsoft has performed some benchmarking tests and offered a concrete idea of what you should expect. In a post on Microsoft’s Secure blog, Terry […]
The prosecutions were filed in California, Oregon, and Indiana, according to The News. The three incidents focus on the setback in Intel disclosing the Meltdown and Spectre cyber-flaws, which make it and others firms’ parts vulnerable to hackers. The company was first published of the two vulnerabilities in June 2016 but did not openly disclose […]
One of the biggest names in IT industry, Intel, has verified a report stating that some microprocessors have been built containing flaws in their design, leaving them vulnerable to hacking . According to reports, every computer that contains microprocessors of Intel from the last decade seems to be affected due to a ‘bug’ that enables […]
The devastating discovery about security flaws (namely Meltdown and Spectre) identified in various generations of Intel CPUs, probably all processors manufactured over the past decade, has taken the tech world by storm. Every day we get to learn about alarming new details, which reinforce the fact that the problem is bigger than we initially thought. […]
Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities haunting users and Tech Giants worldwide – Now the Giants have addressed the issue. Recently, we reported about the security flaws that render the inner workings of multiple generations of Intel CPUs vulnerable to exploitation. Now there are new details available about the flaws. These flaws were identified by Google’s Project Zero […]
It’s not surprising to hear that the creator of the open-source Linux kernel couldn’t hold his temper after learning that Intel processors are affected by vulnerabilities that date back more than a decade ago. And why not? He has enough power to criticize Intel as the active development of the 26-year-old Linux kernel can’t go […]
After initial reports of Intel screwing up big time in the form of massive security flaws, it was later released that the problem is bigger and it affects CPUs from AMD and ARM as well. The flaws being talked about here are Meltdown and Spectre, and they affect almost all devices produced in the last […]
The silicon giant has started rolling out security updates for all Intel-powered devices affected by the vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre that Google Project Zero team made public on Wednesday. Known to have existed on devices released since 1995, these Intel CPU bugs could allow an attacker to access restricted areas of the operating system’s kernel […]
Just yesterday, a report from The Register disclosed a massive security screwup on behalf of Intel, which impacted nearly all chips manufactured in the past ten years. It was also reported that future patches released by the developers of Windows and Linux kernel could reduce the performance of devices up to 5-30%. That’s a lot. […]
Almost all Intel Processors Generations are impacted by the flaw while Intel CPUs are facing 30% performance hit. A Linux kernel development site LWN has reported that there is a serious hardware bug in modern Intel CPUs due to which an attacker can access low-level kernel memory. The memory normally is protected from higher level access from […]
Almost all Intel processors produced during the past 10 years are having a major security hole that could make way for some serious attacks. As per a report from The Register, the Linux and Windows kernels are being forced to undergo a significant redesign, which could result in a performance drop. While all the detailed […]
As promised earlier, the researchers from the Russian security firm Positive Technologies have revealed how they managed to hack Intel’s Management Engine chip, running the MINIX OS, which has become famous overnight. At the BlackHat Europe conference in London, the researchers Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy disclosed (PDF) stack buffer overflow bugs (CVE-2017-5705, CVE-2017-5706, CVE-2017-5707) […]
These ME security holes affect millions of computers. ME continues Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT). This is a great tool that allows admins to remotely run machines, even when the device is not booted. Let me repeat that: If your PC has power, even if it’s not going, it can be attacked. If an attacker happily […]
The downsides of the Intel ME chips have already alarmed the security community. The recent addition to the threat was revealed in the security advisory published by Intel earlier this week. After doing an in-depth security review of their products, Intel found a pool of eight critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities affecting Intel Management Engine (ME), […]